freeCodeCamp/guide/english/miscellaneous/installing-devtools-and-modern-web-browsers/index.md

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title: Installing Devtools and Modern Web Browsers
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We show you how to install various programming langauges, devtools and web browsers on Ubuntu.

## Widely used tools:

### Git

    sudo apt-get install git

### Node JS

    curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh | bash
    nvm install stable

### Ruby

    curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
    rvm install 2.3.1

### Python

`Python 2` and `Python 3` come pre-installed on Ubuntu Desktop.

### Modern Web Browsers

The most popular web browsers used by developers are <a href='https://www.google.com/chrome/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Chrome</a>/<a href='https://www.chromium.org/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Chromium</a> and <a href='https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/developer/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Firefox Developer Edition</a>.

**Installing Chromium:**

    sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

**Installing Firefox Developer Edition:**

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/firefox-aurora
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install firefox

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