Making a fresh data science box by updating your Ubuntu

Operating System

Find out if you are 32 bit or 64 bit

lscpu

Architecture:          x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                4
On-line CPU(s) list:   0-3
Thread(s) per core:    2
Core(s) per socket:    2
Socket(s):             1
NUMA node(s):          1
Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
CPU family:            6
Model:                 69
Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4005U CPU @ 1.70GHz
Stepping:              1
CPU MHz:               1698.273
CPU max MHz:           1700.0000
CPU min MHz:           800.0000
BogoMIPS:              3392.00
Virtualization:        VT-x
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:             32K
L2 cache:              256K
L3 cache:              3072K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-3

Ubuntu 16 upgrade (download from http://www.ubuntu.com/download and make a fresh startup USB see http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu)
Download Chrome

http://www.google.com/chrome/

Dependencies from Terminal

Package Manager Synaptic sudo apt-get install synaptic
Package Manager Software Centre sudo apt-get install software-center*
SSL sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
XML sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
Curl sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
GIT sudo apt install git
GTK $sudo apt-get install wajig

$wajig install libgtk2.0-dev

Java

java -version

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle

sudo R CMD javareconf

R for Linux

Manual Editing of Sources is by (use Ctrl O and Ctrl X to write file and exit nano)

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

# Grabs your version of Ubuntu as a BASH variable
CODENAME=`grep CODENAME /etc/lsb-release | cut -c 18-`

# Appends the CRAN repository to your sources.list file 
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu $CODENAME" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys E084DAB9

sudo apt-get install r-base-dev