Ubuntu Basics

This guide is for 16.04.3

The Basics

Shared Folders

On the VMware menu select Virtual Machine->Reinstall VMware Tools.
Once the cd for the installation is available, copy the VMwareTools tar.gz file to a Downloads (or your preferred directory on your Ubuntu VM). Unzip, change directory into vmware-tools-distrib and in terminal, run

sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Hit enter for all the default options.
Restart the VM.
The shared directory is located in /mnt/hgfs/. Setup a shared directory in host computer in the Sharing settings for the VM in VMware.

Git

sudo apt-get install git

Google Chrome

Add Key

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -

Setup Repo

echo 'deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list

Install Package

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Sublime

Add Repo

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3

Install Package

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer

~/.bashrc

Open ~/.bashrc with Sublime

subl ~/.bashrc

Add to end of ~/.bashrc file

#----------------------#
#---   USER ADDED   ---#
#----------------------#
alias rebuild='cd .. && rm -r build && mkdir build && cd build && cmake ..'

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