POP OS Software Installation Guide – #1

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Initial Updates

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Grub Installation for dual OS

sudo apt install grub-efi grub2-common
sudo grub-install

Due to the bad installation of grub, it is needed to copy grub.efi to the to the appropriate folder and overwrite. As follows.

sudo cp /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/grub.efi /boot/efi/EFI/pop/grubx64.efi

https://askubuntu.com/questions/761563/ubuntu-16-04-cant-install-grub-customizer

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

open now grub-customizer

grub-customizer

Set this config in grub-cutomizer window:

Change OUTPUT_FILE:

/boot/grub/grub.cfg => /boot/efi/EFI/pop/grub.cfg

Chrome

Download from https://www.google.com/chrome/

VirtualBox

sudo apt install virtualbox

Vagrant

curl -fsSL https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main"
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install vagrant

Apache2 Installation

sudo apt install apache2
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

Git

sudo apt-get install git

PHP 7.4

https://tecadmin.net/install-php-ubuntu-20-04/

sudo apt install software-properties-common ca-certificates lsb-release apt-transport-https 
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt update
sudo apt install php7.4
sudo apt install php7.4-mysql php7.4-mbstring php7.4-xml php7.4-curl php-common
sudo apt install php-fpm php7.4-fpm php7.2-fpm php5.6-fpm
sudo apt install php-pear
sudo update-alternatives --config php

Project folder permission

/var/www/html$ cd ..
/var/www$ sudo chmod 777 -R html

MySQL

sudo apt update
sudo apt install mysql-server
sudo systemctl start mysql.service

Configuring MySQL

sudo mysql_secure_installation

or

sudo mysql
SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user;
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user;
exit
sudo mysql_secure_installation

PHPMyAdmin

sudo apt install phpmyadmin

SSH Key Generate

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/cloud-at-customer/occ-get-started/generate-ssh-key-pair.html

ssh-keygen -t rsa
ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa

Composer

Download from https://getcomposer.org/download/ latest version file composer.phar

cd /Downloads
php composer.phar
sudo chmod 755 composer.phar
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

Slack

Dowload from https://slack.com/

PhpStorm

Download from https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/download/#section=linux

cd /Downloads

https://linuxhint.com/install-phpstorm-ubuntu-linux

tar -xvf PhpStorm-2020.3.1.tar.gz

copy Downloads to Home directory

rename PhpStorm-203.6882.180 to PhpStorm

cd PhpStorm/bin
./phpstorm.sh

Phpstorm plugins

  1. .env files support
  2. .ignore
  3. Atom Material Icons
  4. CSV
  5. Git Flow Integration
  6. sudo apt-get install git-flow
  7. Key Promoter X
  8. PHP Annotation
  9. PHP Inspection (EA Extended)
  10. PHP Toolbox
  11. Rainbow Brackets
  12. Yii2 Support

.htaccess enable

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-rewrite-urls-with-mod_rewrite-for-apache-on-ubuntu-20-04

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

Open the default Apache configuration file using nano or your favorite text editor.

sudo cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
sudo nano 000-default.conf

Add these below lines and save file.

VirtualHost *:80>
    <Directory /var/www/html>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    . . .
</VirtualHost>
  sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

PostMan

Download from https://www.postman.com/downloads/ and install

Desktop Icons

https://linuxhint.com/customize-desktop-php-os/

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks
sudo apt install gnome-shell-extensions -y

PhpStorm Desktop Icon

Open Text Edit and save below with PhpStorm.desktop

PhpStorm PHP Quality Tools

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/using-php-code-sniffer.html

  1. PHP Code Sniffer
    https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer
  2. Mess Detector
    https://github.com/phpmd/phpmd/releases/tag/2.10.2
    https://phpmd.org/download/index.html
  3. Psalm
    https://psalm.dev/docs/running_psalm/installation/
    Config: https://psalm.dev/docs/running_psalm/configuration/
  4. PHP Stan
    https://phpstan.org/user-guide/getting-started
    Config: https://phpstan.org/config-reference#config-file
  5. PHP CS Fixer
    https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer

After unzip, run composer

  composer install
  1. and so on.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=PHPStorm
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon=/home/{username}/PhpStorm/bin/phpstorm.png
Exec=/home/{username}/PhpStorm/bin/phpstorm.sh
Categories=Development

PostMan Desktop Icon

Open Text Edit and save below with PostMan.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=PostMan
Comment=PostMan
Keywords=post;chrome;postman
Exec=/home/muslimahmad/Postman/Postman
Icon=/home/muslimahmad/Postman/app/icons/icon_128x128.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=softwares

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