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Adobe Acrobat Reader installation on ElementaryOS - Loki

Just keeping track of my searching about this topic because I got only 💩 instructions...

The `Elementary Way` to do it 😎

In order to keep the system clean as possible, I will just install the required dependencies:

Eddy from the AppCenter
The installation package: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i386linux_enu.deb

glmark2 for nVidia cards

The goal of this gist is to help users who was in the same case as me after the installation of the nVidia drivers.

Issue

While running glmark2 after the driver installation, I got a nice surprise:

Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)

Compile Tomahawk Music Player on Ubuntu 18.04

Just because I loved this music player but the project is abandonned and not available in Ubuntu 18.04 repository...

So I wanted to keep notes to compile it on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Get the sources

Use the packages for Debian 9.x in https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk/wiki/Debian-Build-Instructions

Zabbix Installation with Grafana

Quick resume of the installation process.

Dependencies

Install dependecies first.

sudo apt update

nVidia drivers installation on ElementaryOS - Loki

ElementaryOS - Loki is an amazing ubuntu based distribution, I've just felt in love on it BUT they've removed what's required to install easily the nVidia Proprietary drivers. So here is the reason of this gist, to store the install instructions in one place inside a crystal clear documentation.

Check your device

Open your favorite terminal application then type sudo ubuntu-drivers devices, you should get something like this:

Lazy git intialisation script

Just run these commands by copy/paste or saving in a script.

#!/bin/bash

# Git initialisation script
# Just because I'm a lazy guy that dont want to do it 
# manually on every installs...

	'use strict';

	// GoogleMaps - Places API Types Icons
	// Used google documentation and some tricks from stackoverflow
	// Commented types are types from the documentation which not returning icon
	// Some types are coming from the stackoverflow answer
	// (c) 2018 - Jonathan Barda <[email protected]>
	// https://gist.github.com/Jiab77/0f1bf31cc4555ce932ede965bca3c215

	// Links:

	# [Distribution codename]
	# key inst uninst
	# # noop noop
	# n noop noop
	# s add-repo del-repo
	# i install remove
	# I install noop
	# u install downgrade
	# e error noop
	# k kernel minver maxver INSTRUCTION (maxver is exclusive, minver inclusive)

	#!/bin/bash

	# Remove 'pantheon-mail' (not compatible to Gmail)
	# Now keeping 'epiphany-browser'.
	#sudo apt remove --purge -y epiphany-browser* pantheon-mail 2>/dev/null
	sudo apt remove --purge -y pantheon-mail 2>/dev/null

	# Clean up the system
	sudo apt autoremove --purge -y

	# Download Elementary OS from here:
	# http://sourceforge.net/projects/elementaryos/files/stable/
	# Will fix all static version by some automatic detection code later

	# First you update your system
	sudo apt update --fix-missing -y && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y

	# Install Google Chromium
	sudo apt install -y chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extras