Important Linux Mint 18 OS customizations

These are the necessary stuff to install in Linux Mint 18.

1. Image viewer and editor - Pinta
https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/pinta

2. File Manager like Mac OS
https://askubuntu.com/questions/798899/is-there-a-file-manager-with-mac-os-like-column-view-for-linux


3. Need to install the below stuff to run Linux Mint smoothly
wps
gnome-chess
bleach bit
Vim
lmms


4. vnstat http://www.monitorix.org/downloads.html - for monitoring
Forticlient for Open source VPN client software

5. alian - via https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/alien - package is used to convert rpm to deb and deb to rpm

6. - wine, wine tricks, playon linux, kvm - Install these stuff next on Linux mint to run/test other OS software.

7. docker (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-16-04)

8. servers. (optional)
- apt-get install samba*
- apt-get install bind*
- apt-get install http*
- apt-get install vsftpd*
- apt-get install squid*
- apt-get install dhcpd*

9. KVM (https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1727)
- sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin bridge-utils
- sudo apt-get install virt-manager

10. sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'

11. wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

12. Wifi-hotspot
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/297151/share-wifi-creating-hotspot-on-linux-mint

13. PlayonLinux
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install playonlinux

14. recording desktop
apt install gtk-recordmydesktop

15. Command line music system
cd cmus
./configure prefix=$HOME/cmus
make install

VMware tools installation in RedHat Enterprise Linux VM

Purpose:
To take the snapshot and proper regular backups the VMware tools up-gradation is indispensable.

Scope:
This document will provide a guidance / procedure to install or upgrade the VMware tools in Red Hat Linux VM instances.

Procedure :-
Step 1: -> Select VM on Vcenter
    Inventory > Virtual Machine > Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools
Step 2: -> On Linux :-
    Mount the installable
    mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
Step 3: -> Copy it to /tmp
    mkdir /tmp/vm
    cp -p /mnt/* /tmp/vm/
Step 4: -> Extract and peform the installation,
    gunzip VMwareTools-9.4.10-2068191.tar.gz
    tar -xvf VMwareTools-9.4.10-2068191.tar
    cd vmware-tools-distrib
    ./vmware-install.pl
    Go with the defaults till the installation process completes.
Step 5: -> Reboot the system
Step 6: -> Verify from Vcenter that VMWare tools reflect.