I have sucessfully activated following the solution from this post (https://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/mini-howtos/change-default-network-name-ens33-to-old-eth0-on-ubuntu-16-04.html)
$ sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" --> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"
Generate a new grub file using the following command.
$ sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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I have also installed the missing libncurses.so.5 (error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5:)
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5