Linux Mint System Setup

Git and GitKraken

$ sudo apt install git-all

Then I use which git and find that this is installed in /usr/bin/git.

Python

https://docs.anaconda.com/free/anaconda/install/linux/

If only need to add Conda path temporarily in this terminal run the following,

export PATH=~/anaconda3/bin:$PATH

To add the above permanently in ./bashrc

1. nano ~/.bashrc, open the editor
2. export PATH="~/anaconda3/bin:$PATH", add this to the last line
3. source ~/.bashrc reload the bash

I recommend not activating the conda environment (base) automatically when a terminal is created. This will cause unexpected problems when activating another environment later in vscode. For example, I installed an env at 3.9 version, but python --version in this new env still returns the 3.11 version of base. This problem is solved when I turn off the auto activation.

Python Alias

To use python as command alternative, need to add alias to .bashrc, by adding this.

alias python=python3

Refer to this question.

Update on 2024/02, seems this is not needed anymore, python is linked already.

Hugo and Dependencies

Refer to https://wowchemy.com/docs/getting-started/install-hugo-extended/#linux

Going to use https://brew.sh/ to install. Remember to use the hints at last to add brew into the PATH!

(echo; echo 'eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"') >> /home/yiming/.bashrc
eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

With brew, install both Hugo (extended version by default) and go.

brew install hugo
brew install go

VS Code Setup

The goal is to activate virtual environment every time we start the terminal in a project, need to set the following in the settings.json in .vscode folder. The needed commands are placed in the .sh file within the project root folder.

    "terminal.integrated.profiles.linux": {
        "bash": {
            "path": "bash",
            "args": [
                "--init-file",
                "./quantbullet_dev_init.sh"
            ]
        }
    },
    "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.linux": "bash",

In my case these commands are,

source ~/.bashrc
conda activate quantbullet_dev

It seems calling bash directly will not load the ~/.bashrc which makes conda not in PATH.

Useful Packages

Auto Complete

conda install -c conda-forge conda-bash-completion

Please refer to the package

Use .sh to run a python file

Terminal runs the system python located in /usr/bin/python3 instead of the conda virtual environment I usually use. Therefore, packages need to be installed for this specific version.

Very likely, you have to install pip first.

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
/usr/bin/python3 get-pip.py
/usr/bin/python3 -m pip --version

Then, install the missing packages

/usr/bin/python3 -m pip install nbformat

Finally, create a <name>.sh file and place python3 <python_file_name>.py into it and change the execution mode to allow double click.

chmod +x myscript.sh

Useful Bash codes

Create shortcut

Create a shortcut, navigate to the target folder, and set the location to desktop

yiming@yiming-virtual-machine:~/dev$ ln -s $PWD ~/Desktop/

Do not activate Conda every time open a terminal.

conda config --set auto_activate_base false

Remove a package

sudo apt-get --purge remove hugo