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Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTR

🐧 Ubuntu 24.04 LTR Setup Guide

VSCode

For Ubuntu Linux, it is recommended to install it via:

sudo snap install code --classic

You should now have VSCode installed.

You also need to have the code CLI available.

To check:

code --version

It should return something like the output below:

1.100.2
848b80aeb52026648a8ff9f7c45a9b0a80641e2e
x64

Setup Docker on Linux

In this section we cover any tools that need to be on your system so that you can have a local development environment.

Docker

We assume in our notes that you are using the current Ubuntu LTS - though we try to keep things generic so that you can repeat on other distros or WSL2 on windows.

We recommend using the official Docker packages (not those provided by your distro) and assume membership of the docker group. See docker.io's guide for setup notes and below for adding yourself to the docker group.

sudo usermod -a -G docker $user

(Restart your computer after making this change)

You need to have docker-compose installed - version 1.29 or later should work fine.

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Dependencies installation

The project provide make command that making setup process easier. To install make on your machine or virtual box server, do:

sudo apt install make

Project has recipe that you can use to run the project in one command. This recipe needs docker-compose to be able to use it. To install it, do:

sudo apt install docker-compose
apt install ca-certificates curl gnup lsb-release

Docker installation

The project needs docker to be able to run it. To install docker, please follow these instructions.

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg

On the next prompt line:

echo \
"deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg]https:download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
$(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

Run apt update:

sudo apt-get update

This will install docker

sudo apt-get install  docker-ce-cli containerd.io

This will check if installation of docker was successful

sudo docker version

And it should return like this

Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           20.10.9
 API version:       1.41
 Go version:        go1.16.8
 Git commit:        c2ea9bc
 Built:             Mon Oct  4 16:08:29 2021
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Context:           default
 Experimental:      true

Manage docker as non-root

This will ensure that the docker can be executed without sudo.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo usermod -a -G $USER
sudo systemctl enable docker

Verify that you can run docker commands without sudo.

docker run hello-world

For more information how to install docker, please visit Install Docker Engine

Git

Make sure you have Git installed.

Next Steps

🪧 Now that you have the docker, move on to the generic workflow, starting with Cloning.