The Mint team just released Linux Mint 20.1 called Ulyssa. It is a long term support release which will be supported until 2025. Linux Mint is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on the Ubuntu. It comes with some new features, updated software and bug fixes. It is available with 3 desktop environments Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. All there major editions got lot of important and improvements.
KDE is a free and more customizable graphical desktop environment for Unix systems. Plasma is a widgets based desktop environment. KDE Plasma Desktop is the default desktop environment on many Linux distributions, such as openSUSE, Mageia, Chakra, Kubuntu, Manjaro Linux, and PCLinuxOS.
How to install KDE desktop on Linux Mint
To install KDE desktop on Linux Mint, you need to add author’s personal repository. Open terminal and run the below command. To open terminal in linux mint mate, click the Main Linux Mint Menu, then go to system tools and select Terminal or type terminal in the search field or click the Terminal icon in taskbar.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
Then type your Linux Mint password.And hit enter key confirm the installation.
Then type the below command and hit enter.
sudo apt-get update
Then you must fully upgrade the system via terminal using the below code.
sudo apt full-upgrade
After that if you want to install the latest KDE with all the feature just run the below code in terminal. This will install the full KDE desktop with all KDE softwares.
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
If you want just the minimal package set necessary to run KDE as a desktop environment, then run the below code in terminal.
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends kubuntu-desktop
Type your Linux mint password and Type Y and press enter to confirm the installation.After the sucessful installation of KDE, logout and then select Plasma Desktop to login again using the same linux mint password.
Popular Linux distribution Linux Mint comes with Pre-build website blocking or parental control tool called Domian Blocker. It is also called as mint nanny. Using Linux Mint Domain blocker, you can block and control your kids in the computer to view a specific websites. It uses the /etc/hosts file to block outgoing traffic.
Block a website in Linux Mint using Domain blocker:
Click the Main Linux Mint Menu, then go to Administration and select Domain Blocker or type Domain Blocker in the search field to open the Domain blocker parental control tool. Type your Linux mint password.
Click the Add button and enter the website name you want to block. Then click OK.
It will add the domain in your website blocking list. just restart your pc.
Etcher is a free image burner with good User interface for Linux. It is also available for windows and Mac OS. It is build using JS, HTML, node.js and Electron. It allows you to burn image files to SD cards & USB drives and create a bootable USB using it. Some additional functions are image validation and finding the corrupted SD cards and usb drives.
LAMP named as an acronym of the Linux operating system, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL relational database management system and the PHP programming language.
L – Linux
A – Apache
M – MYSQL
P – PHP
On Windows Click Here: How to install and configure Apache,PHP,MySql and phpMyadmin on windows
On ubuntu Click Here: How to install and configure Apache,PHP,MySql and phpMyadmin on ubuntu
Step 1:
Installing apache
The Apache HTTP Serveris the world’s most used web server software. Open Terminal. To open terminal click the Main Linux Mint Menu, then go to system tools and select Terminal or type terminal in the search field or click the Terminal icon in taskbar. And type the below code in terminal and hit enter.
sudo apt-get install apache2
Type your linux mint password and press enter.
Type y and hit enter to confirm apache installation.
Wine is an open source free compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on linux OS.It allows linux users to run Windows softwares on Unix-like operating systems. Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly.
Install Wine on Linux Mint
To install Wine on Linux Mint, you need to add authors’s personal repository. Open terminal and run the below command.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
Then type your ubuntu password.And hit enter key confirm the installation.
Then type the below command and hit enter,
sudo apt-get update
Then install the latest development branch version by using the below code.
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel
Type Y and confirm the installation by pressing enter.
Note: If your system is 64 bit, enable 32 bit architecture by using below code in terminal before the installation.(if you haven’t already):
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
To check the installed wine version use the below code in terminal
wine --version
How to install and run windows program
For example download notepad++ installer from notepad++ download page.
Open the downloaded folder.The default download location is Downloads folder.
Right click the downloaded .exe file. Here the file name is npp.7.1.Installer.exe
And open with Wine windows program loader and start the installation.
First install the required your favorite JDK on your computer such as Oracle Java, OpenJDK or IBM Java. If you don’t have any, please follow the below below link to install Oracle JDK 8 on Linux Mint.
In this tutorial we are going to work manually with Java programming without the use of an IDE.
Open Terminal. To open terminal click the Main Linux Mint Menu, then go to system tools and select Terminal or type terminal in the search field or click the Terminal icon in taskbar.
In linux mint the default web browser is mozilla firefox. In firefox the default search engine is yahoo. And it also comes with four other search engines like Startpage, DuckDuckGo, Amazon.com and Wikipedia. If your are google fan then you definitely miss it. To add google search engine to your firefox web browser, just follow below steps.
Add Google search option in firefox on Linux Mint
Open mozilla firefox.Click the firefox menu and select Preferences.
Then click the search menu in the sidebar.
Now scroll down and click the Add more search engines.. link.
It will open this page in a new tab. Scroll down and find google under the Commercial engines . And click the Google Icon.
It will Open this page. Now head over to the firefox search bar. And click the green plus icon. And then select Add Google.
Now in preferences Search menu, elect google as the default search engine. That it.
In linux mint you can change and install new themes. The current version that is Linux Mint 18 mate comes with 14 pre installed themes. You can set any one of these as a default theme in linux mint.
Change themes in Linux mint
To change the defaulf theme, click the main Linux Mint start menu. And select Control center.
In control center click the Change Theme option.
Here you can change the default theme. just click on it.
And you can also customize the theme by clicking the customize button. Here you can find Controls, colors, Windows Border,Icons and Pointer options.
This way you can change themes in Linux mint.
Linux mint 18 mate comes with open JDk 8 by default. Open JDK and Oracle JDK both have almost the same code of the classes in the Java API. But OpenJDK tends to use open libraries and Oracle JDK tends to use closed ones. And if you want to install Oracle JDK 8 on Linux Mint, please follow the below steps.
Install Oracle JDK 8 on Linux Mint 18
Go to Oracle JDK8 download page. And download the latest linux jdk in .tar.gz format.
Here its (32 bit) jdk-8u102-linux-i586.tar.gz
Note:change the JDK version in the command according to your jdk version.
Copy your JDK .tar.gz file to your Desktop.
Open Terminal. To open terminal click the Main Linux Mint Menu, then go to system tools and select Terminal or type terminal in the search field or click the Terminal icon in taskbar.