As a developer you might want to work with different development environments. As an example, I had to work with Java 1.4, 1.5, 1.7 and 1.8 :D . When JDK changes all other stuff such as maven will also have to change. One thing you can do is have everything in you bashrc or bash_profile and comment and uncomment the required environment variables. Believe me, I did that for a long time. du

Below are the steps to follow. I found these steps from a forum (which I cannot find the link now) and they have missed one important thing. So, this is how I got my huawei dongle working in Ubuntu 16.04 Create a mobile broadband connection first. You can do it by Edit Connections option. In the terminal type lsusb having the dongle plugged in. Below is what I got Note the line "Bus 0