software-installations

This document is to store guidelines to install most commonly used softwares on ubuntu operating system.

1 Installing Oracle JDK

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

for Java 6, use sudo apt-get install oracle-java6-installer for Java 7, use sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

To check if it's installed properly, use java -version command. You should something like -

2 Install latest nodejs

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 68576280
sudo apt-add-repository "deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x $(lsb_release -sc) main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs

You can see node_8.x in the URL, replace it with the latest version available. To check if node is installed properly on the system, execute following command.

node -v

You should see output something like this

3 Install Shutter - Screenshot tool

To install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shutter/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install shutter

To Uninstall:

sudo apt-get remove shutter