What to do after installing Ubuntu 19.04

For me, a sub-average long-time software developer, Ubuntu is a great operating system. Canonical, the company who releases Ubuntu, does so every six months, in April and October; therefore, version 19.04 was released in April 2019.

My system : Lenovo Yogo 2 Pro x86_64 Grub GNU Debian Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo

Normally I like to install every new Ubuntu release for the following reasons:

I remove all the cruft I have gathered, notice I said “install”, not “upgrade”,
new features available.

Partitions
Pre-Install
Post-Install
- Update
- Terminal
- Tools
- System Monitor
- Firefox
- Sublime Text
- Sublime Merge
- Keys
- Git
- Bash
- Hugo
- Slack
- E-mail
- Development
- Applications
- System config
Previous Installs

Partitions

Partition information is important when using a custom install.

$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
NAME    FSTYPE     SIZE MOUNTPOINT      LABEL
sda              238.5G
├─sda1  vfat       477M                 WINY
├─sda2  swap       8.4G
├─sda3  ext4        28G /
├─sda4  ext4        51G
├─sda5  ext4      81.7G                 Meadow
├─sda6  ntfs         4G                 LENOVO
├─sda7  vfat       250M /boot/efi       BOOT
└─sda10 ext4      61.8G                 Distroer

Pre-Install

Note: You are going to have to backup your current files to another partition like I did or you could use an external drive or USB stick. I keep my Bash files in a GitHub repo, see Bash below.

The main things I backed up were:

~/bin/
~/.bash_links/
~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/
~/.ssh/config
~/.gitconfig
~/.hgrc
~/.s3cfg
~/.scrapinghub.yml
Gramps
dconf dump /org/gnome/terminal/ > gnome_terminal_settings_backup # https://askubuntu.com/questions/967517#967535
cp ~/.bash_links/* -L * /media/stav/Meadow/xenix

Post-Install

Here is my list of things I had to do to after the install to get up and running with a fresh Ubuntu.

Update

First update Ubuntu with any recent security fixes

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Terminal

Reload backup settings.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/967517#967535

$ cp ~/.config/dconf/user /tmp # backup
$ dconf reset -f /org/gnome/terminal/
$ dconf load /org/gnome/terminal/ < gnome_terminal_settings_backup

Tools

$ sudo apt install curl htop vim gnome-tweak-tool

Restore ~/bin/

System Monitor

I love to have system info in the Top Panel so that I can alway have a quick glance at cpu usage and network traffic; but, my beloved indicator-multiload applet no longer works on recent version of Ubuntu.

So now I switched to an extension/applet called [Gnome Shell System Monitor] (https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/gnome-shell-system-monitor-applet):

$ gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 3.32.0

$ sudo apt install gir1.2-gtop-2.0 gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0  gir1.2-clutter-1.0
$ sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell

Then go to the Extension page and click the “ON” switch

Firefox

Use dark theme

about:addons -> Themes

Update search engine to Duck Duck Go:

about:preferences#search -> Default Search Engine

Do not warn when closing multiple tabs:

about:config

Search: "browser.tabs.warn"

    browser.tabs.warnOnClose `false`
    browser.tabs.warnOnCloseOtherTabs `false`

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is an excellent editor.

Install

$ sudo snap install sublime-text

License

Add under help menu.

----- BEGIN LICENSE -----
Steven Almeroth
Single User License
EA7E-... 104B
------ END LICENSE ------

Package Control

You want Package Control from wbond.

Install Package Control

Command Pallate (shft-ctrl-p) -> Install Package Control

Install packages

Restore the following file from your backup and Package Control will automatically install all missing packages:

~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/Package Control.sublime-settings

  "installed_packages":
  [
      "Anaconda",
      "GitGutter",
      "Hugofy",
      "INI",
      "Package Control",
      "Pretty JSON",
      "Python Pretty Print",
      "Theme - SoDaReloaded",
      "TrailingSpaces",
      "Vue Syntax Highlight"
  ]

Copy Files

Copy remaining backup files to ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/

Do not copy these files:

User/Package Control.last-run
User/Package Control.merged-ca-bundle
User/Package Control.user-ca-bundle

Sublime Merge

I also now use Sublime Merge from the same people.

Install

https://www.sublimemerge.com/docs/linux_repositories

Keys

Install ssh keys

Generate

https://help.github.com/en/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "stav@maximillion"
$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
$ sudo apt-get install xclip
$ xclip -sel clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

GitHub

BitBucket

https://bitbucket.org/account/user/stav/ssh-keys/

Cowboy

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh stav@cowboy 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'

Git

$ sudo apt-get install git git-extras gitg meld tree
$ sublime merge https://www.sublimemerge.com/docs/linux_repositories#apt

Bash

$ git clone git@github.com:stav/dotbash.git ~/.bash

Install bash_it

$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it.git ~/.bash_it
$ ~/.bash_it/install.sh  # keep existing `.bashrc` and append templates

Install Powerline theme

https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it/tree/master/themes/powerline

$ mkdir ~/Public/powerline
$ cd ~/Public/powerline
$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git
$ ./fonts/install.sh
$ wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/PowerlineSymbols.otf
$ wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf
$ mv PowerlineSymbols.otf ~/.local/share/fonts/
$ fc-cache -vf ~/.local/share/fonts/
$ mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/
$ mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/

Close all Terminal instances

Copy files

.bash_projects
.bash-it.bash
.bashrc

Link files for editor reference

stav@thelatae:~$ ll .bash_links/
.bash-it.bash -> /home/stav/.bash-it.bash
.bash_projects -> /home/stav/.bash_projects
.bashrc -> /home/stav/.bashrc

Hugo

It’s good to update this document as I’m installing.

Install Hugo

The default installation did not work:

$ sudo snap install hugo

Running the command got an error:

$ hugo
Building sites ERROR 2019/05/07 18:29:45 error: failed to transform resource:
TOCSS: failed to transform "main_parsed.scss" (text/x-scss): this feature is
not available in your current Hugo version, see https://goo.gl/YMrWcn

So I installed the [extended version] (https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.55.5/hugo_extended_0.55.5_Linux-64bit.deb).

Clone Repository

$ mkdir -p ~/Work/stav/Hugo
$ git clone git@github.com:stav/steven.michael.git ~/Work/stav/Hugo/steven.michael
$ git submodule update --init --recursive

Slack

$ sudo snap install slack --classic

E-mail

Add settings in Thunderbird setup

Development

$ sudo apt install build-essential libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 bzip2 libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev openssl libgdbm-dev libgdbm-compat-dev liblzma-dev libreadline-dev libncursesw5-dev libffi-dev uuid-dev
$ sudo apt install python3-pip python3-venv virtualenvwrapper
$ sudo apt install git git-extras meld tree

$ python3
Python 3.7.3 (default, Apr  3 2019, 05:39:12)

Poetry

Based on an article I read about what Nathaniel Smith posted in his blog, I had a bad taste in my mouth when I thought about using Pipenv as the package management system for a new project; so; I went to look for something else and that is when I read what Sébastien Eustace said about Pipenv:

“I do not like the CLI it provides, or some of the decisions made”

Since Poetry makes use of pyproject.toml files I thought I’d give it a go.

”Poetry is a tool for dependency management and packaging in Python”

Installation:

$ curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdispater/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python

Node

Install nvm

https://github.com/creationix/nvm/blob/master/README.md#installation

This will update your .bashrc

$ wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash

Open a new terminal, or else you can setup the environment variable manually which the installer will explain how to do.

$ nvm --version
    0.34.0

Install node

$ nvm ls-remote |tail

       v11.15.0
        v12.3.0
        v12.3.1

$ nvm install 12 --latest-npm

Downloading and installing node v12.3.1...
Downloading https://nodejs.org/dist/v12.3.1/node-v12.3.1-linux-x64.tar.xz...
Computing checksum with sha256sum Checksums matched!
Now using node v12.3.1 (npm v6.9.0)
Creating default alias: default -> 12 (-> v12.3.1)

$ node -v
v12.3.1

$ npm -v
6.9.0

Install yarn

https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install#debian


$ curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
$ echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends yarn

$ yarn -v
1.16.0

Applications

$ sudo apt install chromium-browser gimp mpv

System config

See Lenovo Yoga Ultrabook SSD Tweaks

Previous Installs

I previously installed some other stuff:

What to do after installing Ubuntu 19.04

Contents

Partitions

Pre-Install

Post-Install

Update

Terminal

Tools

System Monitor

Firefox

Sublime Text

Install

License

Package Control

Install Package Control

Install packages

Copy Files

Sublime Merge

Install

Keys

Generate

GitHub

BitBucket

Cowboy

Git

Bash

Install bash_it

Install Powerline theme

Copy files

Link files for editor reference

Hugo

Install Hugo

Clone Repository

Slack

E-mail

Development

Poetry

Node

Install nvm

Install node

Install yarn

Applications

System config

Previous Installs