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

Necessary apps for Linux mint 18.1 Xfce

Necessary apps for Linux mint 18.1 Xfce
1. VLC player
$sudo apt-get install vlc
2. Flareget - download manager
https://flareget.com/download
3. Ultracopier
$sudo apt-get install ultracopier
4. Virtual box
$sudo apt update
$sudo apt install virtualbox
$sudo apt install virtualbox-qt
5. Google chrome
http://winaero.com/blog/install-google-chrome-linux-mint-18/
6. Audacity - audio editor
$sudo apt-get install audacity
7. Pinguy builder - for imaging the customized iso of installed system.
8. Test disk - command line data recovery app
$sudo apt-get install testdisk
9. Openshot - video editor
$sudo apt-get install openshot
10. gedit text editor
$sudo apt-get install gedit
11. Wine
$sudo apt-get install wine*

3 Simple steps to install VLC in Linux Mint 18.2

Follow the below steps to install VLC in Linux Mint 18.2

$sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install vlc

Simple steps to update Linux Mint 18.1 to 18.2

Follow the steps for easy upgradation of Linux Mint 18.1 to 18.2

#apt update
#apt upgrade

$sudo sed -i 's/serena/sonya/' /etc/apt/sources.list
$sudo sed -i 's/serena/sonya/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
$sudo sed -i 's/serena/sonya/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-source-repositories.list

#apt update
#apt upgrade
#apt full-upgrade

$sudo reboot

$lsb_release -a

Necessary steps to tune your Linux Mint 18.1 XFCE

Install the below applications to Linux Mint 18.1 XFCE.

1. WPS - this office program from kingsoft - Chinese light-weight office package, almost Microsoft compatible.
2. Chrome - the well known browser
3. VLC - the well known open source Media player that plays almost everything.
4. gedit, vim - text editors for coding
5. pinguy builder - for remastering the installed OS for future use
6. Flareget, - a free downloader
7. ultracopier - a light-weight fast copying app in linux environment

Removing the below stuff

1. Libre office 5 - a heavy weight office package
2. Xplayer - remove this, as we have already installed VLC player.

Right approach on libre office 5 removal in Linux Mint 18.1

Some people did not like the heavy weight libre office 5, which is pre-installed in Ubuntu falvours. Here is the right approach on removing that.

$ sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core

$ sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-common

To remove the Libre configuration files

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice-core

Use the same for removing them properly with out affecting other dependencies in a cool manner.

Setting static IP on Linux Mint 18

Step1: Open the below configuriaton file
vi /etc/network/interfaces

Step2: Enter the ip address as below in the same file.

auto lo eth0 enp7s0
iface lo inet loopback
iface enp7s0 inet static
   address 10.0.0.254
   netmask 255.0.0.0
   gateway 10.0.0.254

Step3: Restart the network service
systemctl restart networking