How to Install Microsoft office 2007 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ?

This post will bring out steps on how to install Microsoft office 2007 or any version upto Office 2016 on a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Few of the commands one will require are given below followed by the screenshots of installation steps :

Installing XTERM

sudo apt-get update -y

sudo apt-get install -y xterm

Installing PlayOnLinux which relies on the WINEHQ Project

wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | apt-key add -

wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_stretch.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install playonlinux

The related screen shots are enclosed below for reference :

Installing playonlinux...terminal shots

Here we see the Microsoft office 2007 running....

Reset Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to original state

Invariably for Ubuntu users there are times when there is a need felt to get back to the original state of Ubuntu as it was at the time of fresh install.This post shares steps and screen shots to achieve the same with the help of a small tool known as RESETTER.

- Download the same from https://github.com/gaining/Resetter/releases

- After download,just double click the file which is most likely downloaded in the Downloads folder unless otherwise configured.

After double clicking it will take few minutes to install.

After installing just go to the terminal and type sudo resetter

That's all...the above steps have been shown below as screen shots..step wise

The site from where the file to be downloaded named resetter_3.0.0-stable_all.deb

 File seen in the downloads folder

 Double click the same and we get the software install notification window

 Installing after punching password as aksed

 At the terminal type sudo resetter

 There comes the resetter GUI...and u r ready to go

 Thanks

Install "golang-github-gorilla-mux-dev" package :Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Single line command at terminal

sudo apt-get install -y golang-github-gorilla-mux-dev

 

Install "golang-github-joho-godotenv-dev" package: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Single line command

sudo apt-get install -y golang-github-joho-godotenv-dev

Installing GO in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

M sharing here only the terminal commands for installing GO in Ubuntu 18.04...followed by checking whether it is working or not....

Commands as follows in yellow :

go to https://golang.org/dl/

Download the recent tar...herein it is go1.14.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Further to this untar the same...and move the files to /usr/bin

sudo tar -xvf go1.14.linux-amd64.tar.gz

sudo mv go /usr/local

cd /usr/local/

sudo chown -R root:root ./go

Using gedit or any other vi/vim editor, open the ~/.profile file and append the following lines at the bottom :

export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOPATH/bin

Save and load the commands vide the following command

source ~/.profile

Now create a new directory

mkdir GOLA

Within this create /src/welcome and within that directory copy and paste the contents of the file below

mkdir -p GOLA/src/welcome && cd GOLA/src/welcome

touch welcome.go

gedit welcome.go 

add the following lines here in this file

package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
    fmt.Printf("welcome to go world\n")
} 

and save above followed by build and running the file

go build

./welcome

message should be displayed welcome to the go world

Installating Ganache-CLI : Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Few screen shots below for reference and terminal commands produced for installing GANACHE-CLI.First we need to install npm ....

    1  sudo apt-get update
    2  sudo apt install npm
    3  sudo npm install -g ganache-cli
    4  ganache-cli -a

 The accounts created with details of public private keys

METAHASH WALLET INSTALLATION : UBUNTU 18.04 LTS

The following blog post shares few screen shots to installation of metahash wallet.The first step needs to go to https://metahash.org/ and then click the appro download as per the OS of the user.In my case I have a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,so I download the bin file and the rest action follows as per the screen shots below which are all self explanatory.

 this is followed by simply executing the file on the terminal with sudo rights ie sudo ./Meta*.bin