Rebuild My Home - 02 Office

Many people say that Ubuntu is not fit for Office work. I do not agree. Here I will introduce some apps to you and teach you how to install them.

Netease Music

Hmm, no music no life.

You can download from Netease Homepage

And you can find a Linux version.

sudo dpkg -i netease-cloud-music_xxx(version).deb

And now I can build my Ubuntu with beautiful music.

WPS

WPS Office is a perfect office on linux. You can write documents, make PPTs very fluently with its help.

You can download here:

WPS foe linux

I prefer using DEB file for installation.

sudo dpkg -i wps-offxxx.deb

You might meet some trouble here, if your Ubuntu is a grand new one.

You might meet error information like:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wps-office:
 wps-office depends on libgtk2.0-0; however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not installed.

This means you need to install 'libgtk2.0-common'. If there are other errors, you can solve by fix-broken.

Just like this:

sudo apt-get install ligtk2.0-common
sudo apt-get --fix-broken install

After fix gtk dependencies, you can redo the install step by executing sudo dpkg -i xxx

Typora

As a Markdown lover, I cannot live without an elegant markdown editor.

You can follow the installation steps on their home page.

Typora for linux

By the way I don't like the default theme in Typora at all.

You can choose your favorite style in Typora theme.

I prefer using Ursine.

Download from Github release. You can get a zip file after downloading. Unzip it and copy all the file in Ursine folder into your Typora Theme Folder. Mostly, you can find it at ~/.config/Typora/themes. Also, you can find it in your Typora Settings, File > Settings > Appearance > Theme Folder.

Chrome

Well, I think I needn't to introduce Chrome.

Sogou Pinyin

As a Chinese, I cannot avoid inputing Chinese sometimes. However I recommend Sogou pinyin not only for typing Chinese. Besides,Sogou pinyin has English spell hint function. I like it very much.

However, install Sogou pinyin is a little difficult.

Firstly, you need install Fcitx as a frame to hole Sogou pinyin.

sudo apt install fcitx

And then download Sogou here: Sogou pinyin for linux

Use sudo dpkg -i to install it.

Now open settings panel, choose Region & Language and click Manage Installed language.

Here you can install Chinese language configure for your computer. And you should choose Keyboard input method system to fcitx.

Next step is reboot. After rebooting your computer, you can find a keyboard like icon.

And now it's time to add input method.

However I have another important thing to share with you. As a programmer, I frequently use shift on my keyboard. But after using fcitx, shift will change your input language, and it is really annoying.

Here is a tutorial about how to disable shift:

1. Fcitx setting is saved here: ~/.config/fcitx/config

2. Edit it, here are enough information about every configure in fcitx.

3. Finally, do not forget to lock it.

   chmod -w config

Snap store

Here I am going to install a series of apps by using snap store system. It's really convenient to install through snap.

I will list out here:

• Shotcut

  Free, cross-platform, open source video editor

• VLC player

  The ultimate media player

• MailSpring

  My favorite email client

• GNU Image Manipulation Program

  PS for ubuntu

Pandoc

pandoc is a really powerful tool for documentations formats converting.

Download DEB file and install it is okay.

Dia

An convenient app to draw almost all kinds of simple graphs you need.

It's just like VISIO in linux.

sudo apt-get install dia 

QQ

Also there is a QQ-for-linux you can easily install by 'apt install'.

However, it is really awful: easily to get unconnected and you can only scan the QR code to login.

So I recommend wine-QQ.