first command after ubuntu installation

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sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt update

Install essential software in single command

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sudo apt install vim git zsh net-tools rlwrap tree ranger xclip exfat-utils exfat-fuse ruby ruby-dev chromium-browser curl

set up vim git editor

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git config --global core.editor "vim"

installing sublime

Go to following link to install sublime text

https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/linux_repositories.html

Install oh-my-zsh

We already download zsh shell before. Now we need a framework for zsh.
Installing oh-my-zsh framework from github link

https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh

Change our default shell to zsh

Its require restart / logout in ubuntu to take effect

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chsh -s $(which zsh)

how to install power line font for using agnoster theme

first create a .fonts folder in home directory

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 mkdir ~/.fonts

Install powerline font

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wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/PowerlineSymbols.otf
wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf
mv PowerlineSymbols.otf ~/.fonts/
mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d 

Clean fonts cache

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fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts/

Move config file

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mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/

How to install linux terminal theme (using terminal profile)

For visual tweeking in terminal we can use lot of color scheme and terminal theme from following link
https://github.com/Mayccoll/Gogh

Install php alongside essential extension for laravel

Add ondrej/php repo

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

update for repo

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sudo apt update

Install php with all essential extension

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sudo apt install php7.4 php7.4-xml php7.4-gd php7.4-opcache php7.4-mbstring php7.4-zip php7.4-bcmath php7.4-mysql php7.4-curl php7.4-dom php7.4-sqlite3

Remove apache due to auto install

In case of laravel valet, we might to remove apache

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sudo apt purge apache2 apache2-utils apache2-bin apache2.2-common

Installing mysql and configure

Mysql server can be installed by following command

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sudo apt install mysql-server

Removing MySql completely

In case of removing or reinstalling ubuntu, stop the server and completely remove mysql using following command

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sudo apt remove --purge mysql*
sudo apt purge mysql*
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt remove dbconfig-mysql

Configuring MySql

Login to mysql

To see which plugin used for specific user we need to login to our mysql from command line

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sudo mysql -uroot

Plugin used for user in mysql

Once we login to mysql, we can view current used plugin for user, using following code

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use mysql;
SELECT user,plugin,host FROM mysql.user;

Alter user for replacing auth_socket plugin by mysql_native_password

we can change user plugin using following code

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ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '';

here I kept password empty string

Installing Composer

Composer is the defacto package manager for php

Download composer from composer website using bash

That will download the composer.phar file

Move composer.phar file to user/bin/composer, So that we can use composer globally

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sudo mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

Adding composer bin folder to the path for composer global use (.zshrc / .bashrc)

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$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin/:
//or
export PATH=$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin/:$PATH

Installing valet for linux

We can download valet in linux.

First we need to installed required software for that

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sudo apt install network-manager libnss3-tools jq xsel

Installing valet and config

Add valet using composer

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composer global require cpriego/valet-linux

Install valet by following command.

valet install

For parking a folder to valet

valet park

Installing Node using nvm

To download node js using node js go to https://github.com/creationix/nvm

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wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh | bash

Running either of the above commands downloads a script and runs it. The script clones the nvm repository to ~/.nvm, and attempts to add the source lines from the snippet below to the correct profile file (~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, or ~/.bashrc).

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export NVM_DIR="$([ -z "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME-}" ] && printf %s "${HOME}/.nvm" || printf %s "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/nvm")"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

To list available remote versions of node (via nvm)

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nvm ls-remote

To list available versions of node installed

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nvm ls 
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nvm list

To install a node version

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nvm install 14 

To use a node version

nvm use 8