Installing Visual Studio Code on Linux

 As part of the LinuxMint journey described here, as part of setting up the development environment I chose to get Visual Studio Code on the system.

There are two ways to install the same. One way is to grab the *.deb (Debian) package from Microsoft Visual Studio code website.

Alternatively you can use the following from the command prompt

wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > packages.microsoft.gpg

sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 packages.microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/packages.microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list'

  rm -f packages.microsoft.gpg

  sudo apt install apt-transport-https

   sudo apt update

  sudo apt install code # or code-insiders

Installing Opera with Linux

 As part of starting the LinuxMint journey, the first software I got it on the computer was Opera. However installing Opera is not straight-forward because the package is not configured out of the box from the Linux distribution. There are two ways to install the same.

1) Download the *.deb (Debian) package from Opera and install the same.

Alternatively follow these instructions on command prompt for the same.

    sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera.list'

    sudo sh -c 'wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | apt-key add -'

    sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get install opera-stable

A Gentle Journey with Linux Mint

 Had a few assignments to complete through Linux platform and hence chose LinuxMint this time. The code name for 20.x version is #Uma (a sweet Indian name)

If I recall my first date with Linux Mint it was exactly 10 years ago (2011) but due to a lot of personal turbulence the exploration got totally and abruptly stopped and forgotten. And interestingly and with divine bless there is a reunion now.