I migrated to Ubuntu one year ago, but I still don’t get the essential operation there. So, I put some random Ubuntu essential knowledges about it especially when it come to web development. Here there are several links I’ve found useful*.
Structure of file system
File permission
Web development
From the article above, you can install Node.js via package manager provided by ppa:chris-lea/node.js by actually adding python-software-properties package. Just run these commands and there you go.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make nodejs
For further explanation, you can read here.
Updating Ubuntu
My experiences upgrading Ubuntu using software updater was not good and I had a little trouble with it. Fortunately, we can upgrade it using terminal and I found it easier and much more faster. At that forum site, I prefer the solution from NikTh that I can make it sort as:
- Check whether there is an upgrade or not, using sudo do-release-upgrade -c
- Housekeeping,
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get purge $(dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ { print $2 }')
- and Upgrade using sudo do-upgrade-release
Those steps are just to make it easy to remember of course, for the details you can step into the site and read whole the article 🙂
Appearance
In terms of installing themes, here are the steps I found easier to do:
- Download the theme, and extract it
- open Terminal (ctrl + alt + t), and execute this command sudo mv theme-name /usr/share/themes/
- then, activate it! you can do this using “Unity Tweak Tool” because it’s easier
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*dynamic, still gonna change