essential-software-to-install

A list of software to install on a new machine or on a newly installed OS (I used everything to install on a Linux Mint 18.1) for a web developer and machine learning practitioner.

As of 2016-12-21

• oh-my-zsh
• oh-my-zsh-syntax-highlighting
• Python 3
• $ sudo apt-get install python-dev python3-dev (dev headers for python2 and python3)
• pip / pip3 (sudo apt-get install python-pip python3-pip)
• virtualenvwrapper
• Sublime Text / Atom / Notepad++
• IDEs: PyCharm / WebStorm
• nodejs / npm
• $ sudo npm install -g gulp grunt
• chromium (from Application Store / repo)
• git ($ sudo apt-get install git)
• JRE / JDK
• Shutter (for screenshots from Application Store)
• VirtualBox
• $ sudo apt-get install ruby-dev to install ruby dev headers (needed to install compass below)
• $ gem install compass

Docker

• Docker Engine
• Docker Compose
• Docker Machine

Databases

PostgreSQL

• PostgreSQL 9.6 (configuration note that postgresql is already installed) Note: after installing it using described method, I found out that it is actually available in the Application Store (on Linux Mint)
• $ sudo apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-9.6 (needed for pgAdmin 4)
• pgAdmin4 (if install fails, try running sudo apt-get install libpq-dev python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev libffi-dev)
• add alias to run from terminal on pgadmin (echo "alias pgadmin=\"workon pgadmin-env && python ~/.virtualenvs/pgadmin-env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pgadmin4/pgAdmin4.py\"" >> .zshrc ) adjust for virtualenv name and python version

MySQL

• MySQL-server 5.7.16 from Application Store (on Mint)
• MySQL-workbench from Application Store (on Mint)
• If you are using MySQL wiht python, install sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev, otherwise MySQL-python package will throw an error on install (mysql_config not found)

Linux settings

Privacy

• disable IPv6 if the VPN does not offer IPv6 leak protection