tips

  • packages can be found on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu

tools

  • Visual Studio Code
    • You may want to go to File>Preference>Settings and in user settings and set “window.titleBarStyle”: “native”,
  • [LXTerminal](the terminall app from LXDE, very lightweight)

LLVM

LLVM’s deb packages are available at https://apt.llvm.org/

Add llvm.list to /etc/apt/sources.list.d with following content:

deb http://apt.llvm.org/bionic/ llvm-toolchain-bionic-7 main

If you encounter GPG error: http://apt.llvm.org/cosmic llvm-toolchain-cosmic-7 InRelease, import the key:

 wget -O - http://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key|sudo apt-key add -

Error getting access to LLVM Debian/Ubuntu nightly packages

Vim 8

How can I get a newer version of Vim on Ubuntu?

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/vim
sudo apt update
sudo apt install vim