Ubuntu adventure - volume 2
Having fun with my xfce adventure on my chromebook, I decided to start using Ubuntu at work. It's easier than said, as my work team only supports the use of Windows or Mac and getting them to agree to allow me to use Ubuntu is almost as hard as making 1000 Tesla cars in a day.
Decided to go with VMWare for this as i am allowed to use that at work - not my go to option, but will have to do for now.
Had to stick with an older version of Ubuntu (14) as the new version (16) did not work with my version of vmware workstation. Tried to install 16 multiple times and all resulted in failures, so decided to give up after 5 attempts as it seemed to be a complete waste of time as i had the 14 version running
Setting up Eclipse (Bread and Butter of any dev)
Downloaded Java 6, 7 & 8 version and set it upExtracted the tar archivessudo tar -xzvf <filename>moved the files into bin location under a new folder jvmsudo mkdir -p /usr/bin/jvmsudo mv <folder> /usr/bin/jvmsetup the 3 vers…
Decided to go with VMWare for this as i am allowed to use that at work - not my go to option, but will have to do for now.
Had to stick with an older version of Ubuntu (14) as the new version (16) did not work with my version of vmware workstation. Tried to install 16 multiple times and all resulted in failures, so decided to give up after 5 attempts as it seemed to be a complete waste of time as i had the 14 version running
Setting up Eclipse (Bread and Butter of any dev)
Downloaded Java 6, 7 & 8 version and set it upExtracted the tar archivessudo tar -xzvf <filename>moved the files into bin location under a new folder jvmsudo mkdir -p /usr/bin/jvmsudo mv <folder> /usr/bin/jvmsetup the 3 vers…