ACME Bank: Step 8: Install MySQL Workbench On Fedora

 In this post we are going to install MySQL Workbench on Fedora.  MySQL Workbench is a great GUI database management tool for MySQL.  Even though we can do everything we need with MySQL on the terminal it's nice sometime to see the tables and data visually.

Here are the steps to install MySQL Workbench:

1, Go to the yum repository for MySQL at https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/yum/ select the Fedora repository, and click "Download"

ACME Bank: Step 3: Install MySQL on Fedora Linux

The most important thing for most modern dynamic application these day is choosing a database to store your data.  If you are on a Windows environment then you use SQL Server database that is a fine choice. But if you are on Linux MySQL is a great choice also.  In this post we are going to go through how to install MySQL server on our Fedora development machine.

Here are the steps to install MySQL on Fedora Linux:

1. First we need to add the MySQL repository to our machine by tying in the following command in the terminal

sudo dnf -y install https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql80-community-release-fc32-1.noarch

ACME Bank: Step 2: Setting Up Development Environment With .NET Core, NodeJS , VSCode and Postman

In this post we going to get our development environment with NodeJS, VSCode and Postman

The Urls are the following, if you are developing in Linux you should install the Linux version.  All these tools are cross platform so you can develop in either Windows, Linux or MacOS:

.NET Core: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

Node.JS: https://nodejs.org/en/

Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/#alt-downloads

Postman: https://www.postman.com/downloads/

For .NET Core make sure you download the "recommended" version and not the preview version. Also with NodeJS, usually it has LTS status.

Installing .NET Core SDK and NodeJS On Fedora

In order to install .NET Core SDK on Fedora open the terminal and type in the following

sudo dnf install dotnet-sdk-3.1 -y

The -y tells Fedora to skip the y/N prompt and just go on with the install

Once the SDK is installed you can verify the install with the command dotnet --version

ACME Bank: Step 1 : Set Up Chrome Browser On Linux

The first thing we want to do is set up the Google Chrome browser on a Linux instance, I've decided to use a virtualized Fedora workstation as my development machine.  You can use Windows if you want, it would be a lot easier.  It doesn't really matter because Asp.Net Core works on Linux as well.  Google Chrome has the best development tools and it also has an extension call Postman.  Although you want to install the standalone version of Postman.  Here are the steps to install Google Chrome on Linux

I wrote a post on how to set Fedora as your development machine here

1. Navigate to the URL https://www.google.com/chrome/

2. Click on "Download Chrome"

Fedora: Making VirtualBox Fullscreen by Installing Guest Additions

If you've installed an operating system in VirtualBox before you've probably noticed the screen is really small even when you switch to Fullscreen mode.  It's so small that you can't even see the fonts for the icons if you have a desktop GUI installed.  To fix this problem VirtualBox provides us with the Guest Additions tool.  Which enables the virtual machine to be viewed at fullscreen.

Fedora: Install Oracle JDK

Linux installation comes with OpenJDK, but you want to use the official JDK from Oracle instead to run most of the software.  This post will show you the steps to install the Oracle JDK

First let's check to see what version of JDK we have installed by running the command

java -version

Using Fedora As Your Development Desktop

In our previous series we've gone over how to install Ubuntu Server on Oracle VirtualBox to use it as a server.  In this series we will go over how we can use the Fedora desktop as your developer's machine/virtual machine.  Having a Linux developer machine is great because a lot of the more expensive Windows developer's program are expensive.  There's usually a Linux equivalent application that is comparable to their Windows big brother that are usually free or a lot less expensive.  Also most Java technologies work better on Linux than Windows.  So let's begin on journey into the Linux desktop experience.