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

CAPT Bhopal Conference Presentation : BLOCKCHAIN-BITCOIN-CRIMES INTRODUCTION & What's it all about?

A copy of the presentation and talk that I gave at Central Academy for Police Training(CAPT) at Bhopal on 29 Feb 2020.The presentation covers a brief overview of what blockchain and bitcoin mean,how they work concluded by the crimes happening around them.

BLOCKCHAIN-BITCOIN-CRIMES I... by Anupam Tiwari on Scribd

Few pics from the conference below

FILECOIN INSTALLATION UBUNTU : IPFS based Decentralized Storage Network

For those of you hearing this term "FILECOIN" for the first time,Filecoin is a decentralized storage network that turns cloud storage into an algorithmic market. Miners earn the native protocol token by providing data storage and/or retrieval. Conversely, clients pay miners to store or distribute data and to retrieve it. “Filecoin” can refer to  the network or a protocol or even the token powering the network, and the project.

The following execution of the commands will see you through the installation part. Few screen shots given for reference :

Run
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mesa-opencl-icd ocl-icd-opencl-dev
Build
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
sudo apt update
sudo apt install golang-go gcc git bzr jq pkg-config mesa-opencl-icd ocl-icd-opencl-dev

Clone
git clone https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus.git
cd lotus/

Install
make clean && make all
sudo make install