I'm using the strategy outlined here to manage my dotfiles: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-store-dotfiles-git-bare-repo/
Run these commands to set up a new machine. Note the dotgit command is an
alias in .bash_profile:
git clone --bare https:/lag13/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotgit
alias dotgit='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotgit/ --work-tree=$HOME'
dotgit config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
dotgit checkout
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install --cask emacs
# If I use a standalone terminal application (as opposed to doing something like running a terminal emulator via emacs) I prefer using iterm2 on mac instead of the native terminal app because I had one experience surrounding the history feature of bash where what I was observing was NOT lining up with what the bash source code said should be happening (I was expecting that when I ran more than HISTSIZE commands, it would overwrite the ~/.bash_history file INSTEAD OF appending to it: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/226214/why-does-history-not-overwrite-but-append-when-histappend-is-set-to-off-in-bash/428208#428208). Turns out, the terminal mac app messes with the shell a bit (https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/219825) and that just made me not trust it because maybe it messes with other things and I'd prefer it if my tools don't mess with the behavior of other tools unless I explicitly say so.
brew install --cask iterm2
# For compiling vterm: https:/akermu/emacs-libvterm#installation
brew install cmake
brew install go
go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports
go get github.com/rogpeppe/godef
brew install --cask docker
brew install graphviz
brew install warrensbox/tap/tfswitch
brew install kubernetes-cli
brew install awscli
brew install rclone
# When I tried to install clojure it failed and instructed me to install java first
brew install openjdk@8
brew install leiningen
brew install plantuml
brew install jq
# For emacs to do spellcheck: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/19175/where-is-ispell
brew install ispell
brew install ripgrep
Ubuntu:
sudo apt install -y vim
sudo apt install -y emacs
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelleyk/emacs
sudo apt update
sudo apt install emacs26
remac capslock to control: https://askubuntu.com/questions/969053/map-caps-lock-to-control-on-ubuntu-17-10?rq=1
install go https://golang.org/dl/ (using apt by default does not install the latest version)
I guess I could also do this: https:/golang/go/wiki/Ubuntu
sudo snap install slack --classic
https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux
To keep time stuff in sync. When I originally installed ubuntu things worked fine, I shut the computer and the next day when
I opened it the year was 2025 for some reason. When I turned it off and on again things were fine but Summit tried to help
me debug he said I should install this so I did.
sudo apt install -y ntp
For VPN stuff: https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/
sudo apt install -y openconnect
to connect to VPN you'll run something like openconnect --user=asdf --servercert sha256:lsklldfsjkldfslkjfalkjasdfljk --script=/usr/share/vpnc-scripts/vpnc-script vpn.server.thingy
Note that on ubuntu the --script parameter defaults to the correct file already but I like the idea of specifying it.
the snap binary that I originally installed failed: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54406076/terraform-init-fails-git-must-be-available-and-on-the-path so I downloaded the executable from hashicorp, moved it to /usr/bin and that worked
sudo snap install terraform
to install ansible: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#latest-releases-via-apt-ubuntu
What is a PPA?
Need to hit "TAB" to be able to click the
sudo apt install virtualbox virtualbox-ext-pack
sudo apt install vagrant
sudo apt install awscli
install kubectl version 1.10.11 https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/
sudo apt install docker.io
then follow these instructions https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/linux-postinstall/
to run docker as non-root. Or these:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/477551/how-can-i-use-docker-without-sudo
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
newgrp docker
https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started#_installation_on_linux
https://leiningen.org/
Should also install bfg: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/
for cleaning bad git history.- script more stuff
- on ubuntu it looks like .bashrc is supposed to be configured by the system for non-login shells only so I think I'm gonna remove .bashrc from this repo. Need to look into that more though.
- See how to run the docker thingy automatically when I start this machine.
- There are some differences between ubuntu and mac which are a little annoying. Most bothersome is how I run apt as sudo in ubuntu which causes binaries to get installed in /usr/bin but on mac I use brew which installs them in /usr/local/bin (or it creates a symlink there or something). Also, my PATH is super messy at the moment and it got me thinking that I wonder if it would be useful to try and have path point to fewer places and have a couple custom shims? Then again maybe I'd just be moving the complication into the shims. Or maybe everything I install should just go into my home directory by default and have PATH look there first? Part of me likes that isolation (not that I have any use for it I suppose). One of the problems for example is that I configure the editor for git commit messages to be the vim binary from /usr/local/vim (where brew would install it) but on ubuntu it would not get installed there. Not a huge deal (I just move it to /usr/local/bin) but its still kind of annoying.
- It feels like a lot of the time installing things on ubuntu might consist of downloading a tarball, extracting it, and putting the binary into the appropriate location. I feel like that should be scripted more somehow?
The dotfiles are now in the home directory where they should be. Use the
dotgit to check if any files have changed and commit/push/... just like
normal. New files will not be shown in the output of dotgit status because
of the showUntrackedFiles option. This is to reduce clutter.