Things to do after installing a fresh Linux Mint VM

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Things to do after installing a fresh Linux Mint VM

Linux Mint 19, based to Ubuntu 18.04

Install PHP and extensions

https://tecadmin.net/install-php-7-on-ubuntu/

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y php7.4

Extensions needed for Laravel development

https://laravel.com/docs/6.x#server-requirements

sudo apt install php-bcmath
sudo apt install php-json
sudo apt install php-mbstring
sudo apt install php-sqlite3
sudo apt install php-tokenizer
sudo apt install php-xml
sudo apt install php-zip

Install PHP Code Sniffer

https://phpqa.io/projects/phpcbf.html

composer global require squizlabs/php_codesniffer

Install Composer

https://getcomposer.org/download/

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'a5c698ffe4b8e849a443b120cd5ba38043260d5c4023dbf93e1558871f1f07f58274fc6f4c93bcfd858c6bd0775cd8d1') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

Install Node/NPM/nvm

https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.1/install.sh | bash

When nvm is installed, download/install Node

nvm install 13

Install additional Linux/Development Tools

Install SQLiteBrowser

sudo apt install sqlitebrowser

Install Albert

https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:manuelschneid3r&package=albert

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/manuelschneid3r/xUbuntu_18.04/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:manuelschneid3r.list"
wget -nv https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:manuelschneid3r/xUbuntu_18.04/Release.key -O Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install albert

Install SublimeText Editor

https://lintut.com/how-to-install-sublime-text-editor-in-ubuntu-mint-and-debian-linux/

wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y sublime-text

VirtualBox settings, mounts

Mount VM filesystem second "storage" drive

Get drives UUIDs

blkid
sudo nano /etc/fstab

Move main user home directory to newly mounted "storage" drive

Copy existing files to new folder

cp -axv /home/[user-name] /storage/home/

Edit /etc/passwd to reflect new home folder

sudo nano /etc/passwd

Give main user permissions for VirtualBox shared folders

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=244340

sudo gpasswd -a [user-name] vboxsf

Copy old SSH keys and give permissions

sudo cp -r /storage/home/[old-user-name]/.ssh /storage/home/[user-name]
sudo chown -R iko:iko /storage/home/[user-name]/.ssh