Things to do Post-Installation of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

List of all commands that needed to be ran after installing Ubuntu

2 min readDec 16, 2021

Installing Ubuntu for the first time can be a hectic task as it is difficult to figure out the next steps in right direction.
When you have installed Ubuntu, there are few things that needed to be taken care of to setup the proper linux system.

Command Line Interface (Terminal)

It is important, of course, to know how to use the Terminal. It is where you type commands to tell the computer what to do. That is faster and more powerful, but requires finding out what the commands are.
Open terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T, or Super+T (Windows-key + T) or just by finding it from the menus.

Update the System

Update all the package informmation to install the new softwares and also upgrade the system packages by:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Installation relevant packages

In order to play media files like MP#, MPEG4, AVI etc, you’ll need to install media codecs:

sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo apt install snapd
sudo apt install net-tools
sudo apt-get install git

Now that the repositories are set and codecs are installed, it is time to get software.

Google Chrome : wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
VLC : sudo snap install vlc
GIMP — GNU Image Manipulation Program : sudo snap install gimp
Spotify : sudo snap install spotify
Android Studio : sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk sudo snap install android-studio --classic
VS Code : sudo snap install code --classic
Zoom : wget -O zoom.deb https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i zoom.deb

You can also install pip yourself to ensure you have the latest version.

sudo apt install python3-pip

Virtualenv is used to manage Python packages for different projects.

python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv

To create a virtual environment, go to your project’s directory and run venv.

python3 -m venv env

Instead of installing packages individually, pip allows you to declare all dependencies in a Requirements file using the -r flag. You can get sample Requirements file from here.

pip install -r requirements.txt

For more Information on installation of packages, go through the references given below.

Further reads:

TecMint: https://www.tecmint.com/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-20-04/
LinuxHint: https://linuxhint.com/40_things_after_installing_ubuntu/
It’s Foss: https://itsfoss.com/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-20-04/
Foss Bytes: https://fossbytes.com/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu/

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