Additional Steps

Open the terminal by clicking on the monitor icon at the bottom-left of the desktop. Or you can click on the “start button” (the LM logo at the bottom-left of the desktop) then, click on System and scroll to Terminal Emulator.
Update the Linux Ubuntu system by running the following three commands.
```
sudo apt-get update
```
```
sudo apt-get upgrade
```
```
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
```
Install essential build tools (for programming)
```
sudo apt-get install build-essential
```
Install Vim (the ubiquitous text editor)
```
sudo apt-get install vim
```

Cleanup the system

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean

Set the autorun script when opening up a terminal.
1. We’ll first copy the default provided by the OS.
```
sudo cp /etc/bash.bashrc ~/.bashrc
```
2. Then, we ensure that we own it (more on this later).
```
sudo chown $USER:$USER ~/.bashrc
```
3. Finally, we’ll load it into the current terminal
```
source ~/.bashrc
```
Add the following useful aliases to the the ./bashrc file.
1. Open ~/.bashrc in one of the following text editors:
  - Vim - opens in the terminal, there is a learning curve with this one
    vim ~/.bashrc
  - Nano - opens in the terminal, not a strong learning curve. The ^ symbol means ctrl. So ^x means to type ctrl + x
    nano ~/.bashrc
  - gedit - a GUI based text editor
    gedit ~/.bashrc
2. The following helpful aliases can be added to the end of the file:
```
alias c='clear'
alias h='history'
alias j='jobs'
alias ls='ls -CF --group-directories-first --color=auto $*'
alias lss='ls -Alh $*'
alias m='more'
alias p='ps -ef'
alias ~='cd ~'
```
Finally, load them into the current terminal via: source ~/.bashrc