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somehow I messed up with my Ubuntu workstation, my bad luck :( . I was using this for python and php programming since one and half year. So I am going step by step to install all neccessary packages and softwares.

Hope this will help someone else there.

Step 1: Configure LAMP

There are lot of ways to Configure Apache server with Mysql and PHP but I will follow the simeplest one. I am using tasksel fot this.

Tasksel is a tool in Ubuntu / Debian, which helps to install multiple related packages as a co-ordinated task.

• install tasksel using ubuntu Advanced Packaging Tool apt-get.
  user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install tasksel
  you have to choose mysql root password in end of process, that will be used to access mysql database.

• install phpmyadmin to access mysql
  user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

Step 2: Configure Python

In Ubuntu latest releases Python 2.7 is already pre-installed but we need to install python dev tools and other liberaries for development.

python development liberaries

• build-essential
• python2.7-dev
• libxml2-dev
• libxslt1-dev
• python2.7-mysqldb
• libmysqlclient-dev

user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install -y build-essential python2.7-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python2.7-mysqldb libmysqlclient-dev

python pip and virtualenv

pip is a package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python. A Virtual Environment is a tool to keep the dependencies required by different projects in separate places, by creating virtual Python environments for them.

• install pip
  user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install python-pip

• install virtualenv
  user@ubuntu:~$ sudo pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
  now you can init you virtualenv for a project, for this you need to decide you working directory and changed to that directory cd /home/user/myproject/
user@ubuntu:/home/user/myproject/$ virtualenv env
  

Step 3: Configure Ruby

For Ruby we will user RVM to install latest or specific version of Ruby.

• First you need to add repo to your ubuntu system and then update to install
  user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:rael-gc/rvm
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install rvm

• Installing Specific Ruby
  user@ubuntu:~$ rvm install ruby_version

Step 4: Configure Nodejs amd other front-end tools line grunt bower

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

• install nodejs, We will be using NVM to manage node version, its a best way to use multiple nodejs versions.
  user@ubuntu:~$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.25.0/install.sh | bash
  now use NVM to install specific version.
  user@ubuntu:~$ nvm install 4.0

• we will also install other tools to make it work
  user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt install nodejs-legacy
user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install npm
  

• install Grunt
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
  used -g flag to make it available globally.

I think we have installed all neccessary packages to ready for development, please comments here if missed something. Thanks, happy coding:)