Setup Solidity Smart Contract Development Environment on Ubuntu 22

Install Ganache UI on Ubuntu:

Quickly fire up a personal Ethereum blockchain which you can use to run tests, execute commands, and inspect state while controlling how the chain operates.

• Download the latest version of appimage from here (trufflesuite ganache project page)
  
• Add execution permission to the downloaded file:
  chmod +x ganache-*.AppImage
• Before running, make sure that libfuse2 is installed.
  sudo apt-get install libfuse2
• Run Ganache UI:
  ./ganache-*.AppImage

Install SOLC (The Solidity Compiler) on Ubuntu:

Using apt-get:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install solc

• Make sure solc is installed by getting the solc version:
  solc --version
  Output:
  solc, the solidity compiler commandline interface
Version: 0.8.15+commit.e14f2714.Linux.g++

Using snap:

sudo snap install solc

• Make sure solc is installed by getting the solc version:
  solc --version
  
• This version may be lower than the version of the installed package from apt-get.

Reference: https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/installing-solidity.html

Install Truffle on Ubuntu:

A world class development environment, testing framework and asset pipeline for blockchains using the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), aiming to make life as a developer easier.

• Make sure that "npm" is installed.
  sudo apt-get install npm
• Install truffle using npm:
  sudo npm install -g truffle
• Make sure solc is installed by getting the truffle version:
  truffle version