# Installing Essential Development Tools

With a clean system, let's install the core developer toolkit.

### Brave Browser

Brave is a privacy-focused, Chromium-based browser. Developers prefer it for its built-in ad blocking and strict script controls, plus its "Memory Saver" features which keep the OS snappy.

Bash

```
sudo apt install curl -y
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install brave-browser -y
```

### Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a lightning-fast text editor. It is perfect for quick edits, viewing massive log files, or machines with low RAM where opening a full IDE is unnecessary.

Bash

```
sudo snap install sublime-text --classic
```

### Visual Studio Code

The industry-standard code editor with massive extension support for Python, C++, and Docker.

Bash

```
sudo snap install code --classic
```

### Slack

The primary communication tool for tech teams.

Bash

```
sudo snap install slack
```

### Zoom

For video conferencing. Zoom provides a `.deb` (Debian package) file.

Bash

```
wget https://zoom.us/client/latest/zoom_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./zoom_amd64.deb -y
```

### Kiro IDE (Agentic AI Editor)

Kiro is an AI-powered IDE. Since it is distributed manually via a `.deb` file, you must tell `apt` to look at your local directory using `./`.

> ⚠️ Warning: If you do not use `./`, `apt` will search the internet instead of your hard drive and fail with an "Unable to locate package" error.

Bash

```
# Assuming you downloaded it to your Downloads folder
cd ~/Downloads
sudo apt install ./kiro-setup-linux.deb
```

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