ubuntu-vm-setup.md

Ubuntu VM Setup

From Desktop

• Install Git: sudo apt install git

• Install Gradle:

  wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.4.1-bin.zip
  sudo mkdir /opt/gradle
  sudo unzip -d /opt/gradle gradle-3.4.1-bin.zip
  export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gradle/gradle-3.4.1/bin
  

• Install Open JDK 8

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
  

• Installing IntelliJ Idea

  • https://websiteforstudents.com/install-intellij-idea-ide-on-ubuntu-16-04-17-10-18-04/
  • Using Snapd

    sudo apt install snapd
    sudo snap install intellij-idea-community --classic
    

From Server on a Self-Hosted VM With Docker and Docker Compose

• Download the latest Ubuntu server edition
• Setup a VM using your favorite hypervisor: VMware Workstation or Oracle VirtualBox
• Install Git

  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install git
  git --version
  

• Install Docker: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-18-04
• Install Docker Compose: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-docker-compose-on-ubuntu-18-04

From Server on Azure

• Update apt-get: sudo apt-get update
• Install Ubuntu desktop: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
  • See complete steps to install and connect via RDP to a Azure-hosted Ubunutu server here
• Installing Open JDK 11:
  • See https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/01/how-to-install-openjdk-11-in-ubuntu.html

General

• Checking Ubuntu version: lsb_release -a

Troubleshooting

Unable to install/upgrade

Say, you try to install something (say, Docker Compose: sudo apt install docker-compose)

If you see an error like the following:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?

It means something else is being installed/upgraded. You can check that by looking at the history log:

less /var/log/apt/history.log