My dotfiles

Tested on Ubuntu 24.04

Bootstrap

Make sure apt is up to date and that git is installed.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt install -y git

Make sure that you are satisfied with the hostname (it will be used for the SSH key):

hostname

Or, set a new one:

sudo hostname piglet

If necessary, generate a new SSH key (and add it to github):

ssh-keygen -t ed25519

Clone the dotfiles repo:

git clone [email protected]:jocko/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

Since I might be using different emails across my computers, I don't want this config in my dotfiles. Instead, I set this system wide:

sudo git config --system user.email "<email>"

When it comes to vim, there are a couple of options. Package vim works okay, but doesn't have xterm_clipboard (can be checked in vim by doing :echo has('clipboard')). Better option then is to install vim-gtk3.

sudo apt install -y vim-gtk3 screen

Link the screen config:

ln -sr ~/.dotfiles/screenrc ~/.screenrc

Link the vim config:

ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/vimrc ~/.vimrc

Install Vundle:

git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim

Start vim and run :PluginInstall.

Now, rest of the commands can be executed via slime from inside vim. Launch screen -S vim in a terminal and do <C-c><C-c> below:

sudo pwd

Link bash and readline config:

ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/bashrc ~/.bashrc && ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/inputrc ~/.inputrc

Link the git config:

ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/gitconfig ~/.gitconfig \
    && ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/gitignore ~/.gitignore

Link custom vim after:

ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/vim/after ~/.vim/after

Create dirs in home:

mkdir ~/bin ~/repos ~/src ~/lab

Install "essential" packages:

sudo apt install -y build-essential curl wget tree \
    pulseaudio-utils xautolock atool xsecurelock

Optionally, copy skeleton file(s):

cat ~/.dotfiles/skel/bash_local

cp ~/.dotfiles/skel/bash_local ~/.bash_local \
    && cat ~/.bash_local

Optionally, symlink dircolors:

ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/dircolors ~/.dircolors

Window Manager

Optionally, configue to install from i3's own repository.

Download keyring:

curl --silent https://debian.sur5r.net/i3/pool/main/s/sur5r-keyring/ \
    | perl -lne 'print "curl -o sur5r-keyring.deb https://debian.sur5r.net/i3/pool/main/s/sur5r-keyring/$1" if />(sur5r-keyring_.*\.deb)/' \
    | bash

Install it:

sudo dpkg -i sur5r-keyring.deb && rm sur5r-keyring.deb

Configure repo:

echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://debian.sur5r.net/i3/ $(lsb_release -cs) universe" \
    | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sur5r-i3.list \
    && sudo apt update

Install i3:

sudo apt install -y i3

Link config:

mkdir -p ~/.config/i3 && ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/i3.config ~/.config/i3/config 

Install rofi (dmenu replacement)

sudo apt install -y rofi

Install xkblayout-state

sudo apt install -y libx11-dev

git clone [email protected]:nonpop/xkblayout-state.git ~/src/xkblayout-state

pushd ~/src/xkblayout-state && make && cp xkblayout-state ~/bin && popd

Install i3blocks:

sudo apt install -y i3blocks fonts-font-awesome

Link config:

ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/i3blocks.conf ~/.i3blocks.conf

Link dunst config (dunst is recommended by i3, so it should already be installed):

mkdir -p ~/.config/dunst && ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/dunstrc ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc

Try it out:

ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/scripts/ding ~/bin/ding && ~/bin/ding echo Ermahgerd!

Terminal Emulator

Install font of choice:

sudo apt install -y fonts-hack-ttf

Install xfce4-terminal and make it the default:

sudo apt install -y xfce4-terminal \
    && sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

Install color scheme:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/xfce4/terminal/colorschemes \
    && cp ~/.dotfiles/skel/xfce4-gruvbox-dark.theme \
    ~/.local/share/xfce4/terminal/colorschemes/gruvbox-dark.theme

In xfce4-terminal, right click and open Preferences.... Under the General tab. Set Scrollbar is: to Disabled. Uncheck Show unsafe paste dialog. Under the Appearance tab, set font to Hack Regular 14. Uncheck Display menubar in new windows. Under the Colors tab, load preset gruvbox dark.

Firefox

This installs a non-snap version of Firefox.

Install keyring:

wget -q https://packages.mozilla.org/apt/repo-signing-key.gpg -O- \
    | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc > /dev/null

Configure repo:

echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.mozilla.org.asc] https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla main" \
    | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list > /dev/null

Lower priority of snap package:

echo -e "Package: firefox*\nPin: release o=Ubuntu*\nPin-Priority: -1" \
    | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla-firefox

Uninstall snap package:

sudo apt update && sudo apt remove -y firefox

Install firefox:

sudo apt install -y firefox

Optionally, remove snap:

sudo snap remove firefox

Ctags

Choose either exuberant-ctags or universal-ctags. I'm currently using universal-ctags.

exuberant-ctags

Install:

sudo apt install -y exuberant-ctags

Link config:

ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/ctags ~/.ctags

universal-ctags

Install:

sudo apt install -y universal-ctags && mkdir ~/.ctags.d/

Link config:

ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/typescript.ctags ~/.ctags.d/typescript.ctags

Python

Install python3 and make python point to it:

sudo apt install -y python3-pip python3-venv python-is-python3 python3-autopep8

Optionally, install pgcli

sudo apt install -y libpq-dev && pip install --user pgcli

Ruby

Link gem config:

ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/gemrc ~/.gemrc

Download ruby-install (note: version is static):

wget -O ~/src/ruby-install.tar.gz https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install/archive/v0.9.3.tar.gz \
    && rm -rf ~/src/ruby-install \
    && mkdir ~/src/ruby-install \
    && tar -xzvf ~/src/ruby-install.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C ~/src/ruby-install \
    && rm ~/src/ruby-install.tar.gz

Install it:

pushd ~/src/ruby-install/ \
    && sudo make install \
    && popd

Download latest ruby versions:

ruby-install --update

Install ruby 3.3 (note: might take a while):

ruby-install ruby 3.3 && echo 3.3 > ~/.ruby-version

Download chruby (note: version is static):

wget -O ~/src/chruby.tar.gz https://github.com/postmodern/chruby/archive/v0.3.9.tar.gz \
    && rm -rf ~/src/chruby \
    && mkdir ~/src/chruby \
    && tar -xzvf ~/src/chruby.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C ~/src/chruby \
    && rm ~/src/chruby.tar.gz

Install it:

pushd ~/src/chruby/ \
    && sudo make install \
    && popd

httpie

curl -SsL https://packages.httpie.io/deb/KEY.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmour -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/httpie-key.gpg

sudo curl -SsL -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/httpie.list https://packages.httpie.io/deb/httpie.list

sudo apt update \
    && sudo apt install -y httpie

ack

Install:

sudo apt install -y ack

Link config:

ln -sf ~/.dotfiles/ackrc ~/.ackrc

Git PPA

Install latest stable Git version from PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa && sudo apt install -y git

SDKMAN

Install SDKMAN (sdk) without touching my dotfiles:

curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io?rcupdate=false" | bash \
    && source ~/.bash_local

sdk install java

sdk install maven

sudo wget https://raw.github.com/juven/maven-bash-completion/master/bash_completion.bash \
    --output-document /etc/bash_completion.d/mvn

Fast Node Manager (fnm)

Install Fast Node Manager (fnm) without touching my dotfiles:

curl -fsSL https://fnm.vercel.app/install | bash -s -- --skip-shell

fnm completions --shell bash | sudo tee /etc/bash_completion.d/fnm > /dev/null

fnm install 22

Jetbrains Toolbox App

Toolbox App is packaged as an AppImage, which requires FUSE:

sudo apt install -y libfuse2

curl -s  'https://data.services.jetbrains.com/products/releases?code=TBA&latest=true&type=release' \
    | jq -r '.TBA[0].downloads.linux.link' \
    | xargs wget -O /tmp/jetbrains-toolbox.tar.gz \
    && tar -xzvf /tmp/jetbrains-toolbox.tar.gz --strip-components=1 -C /tmp \
    && /tmp/jetbrains-toolbox \
    && ln -sf ~/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/bin/jetbrains-toolbox ~/bin/jetbrains-toolbox 

Desktop Utils

Setup file manager of choice:

sudo apt install -y thunar \
    && xdg-mime default thunar.desktop inode/directory

Hack for getting Firefox to respect my mime mapping above when opening downloads folder.

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services \
    && cp ~/.dotfiles/skel/org.freedesktop.FileManager1.service ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services/

Setup Simple X Image Viewer:

sudo apt install -y sxiv \
    && xdg-mime default sxiv.desktop image/gif \
    && xdg-mime default sxiv.desktop image/jpeg \
    && xdg-mime default sxiv.desktop image/jpg \
    && xdg-mime default sxiv.desktop image/png

Setup (PDF) document viewer:

sudo apt install -y zathura \
    && xdg-mime default org.pwmt.zathura.desktop application/pdf

Install screenshot tool:

sudo apt install -y ksnip

Install graphical text editor:

sudo apt install -y mousepad \
    && xdg-mime default org.xfce.mousepad.desktop text/plain

Miscellaneous

Set key repeat rate etc

sudo apt install inputplug

cp ~/.dotfiles/skel/xsessionrc ~/.xsessionrc \
    && cat ~/.xsessionrc

Note that .xsessionrc is a dotfile specific to Debian (and its derivatives).

Touchpad tapping

List all input devices:

xinput

Likely, it is the input named something with Synaptics

xinput list --name-only | grep -i synaptics

If this is correct, test it out by doing:

xinput set-prop "$(xinput list --name-only | grep -i synaptics)" "libinput Tapping Enabled" 1

Make it persistent:

echo xinput set-prop \""$(xinput list --name-only | grep -i synaptics)"\" \"libinput Tapping Enabled\" 1 \
    >> ~/.xsessionrc

Kagi

Login to https://kagi.com/signin. Right click address bar in Firefox and Add "Kagi Search". Open about:preferences#search and select Kagi.

Printing

Configure printers using CUPS. Navigate to

http://localhost:631

User should already belong to lpadmin group, so enter login credentials at login prompt.

Under Administration, select Add Printer. TODO yada yada

TODO Evaluate drivers from Epson

TMK

git clone ...

git submodule update --init

Install AVR toolchain:

sudo apt install -y gcc-avr avr-libc avrdude

TODO Linux udev rules

Teensy:

wget -O /tmp/teensy.tar.gz https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/teensy_linux64.tar.gz \
    && mkdir /tmp/teensy \
    && tar -xzvf /tmp/teensy.tar.gz -C /tmp/teensy/

UDEV rules:

wget -q https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/00-teensy.rules -O- \
    | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/00-teensy.rules > /dev/null

TODO hid_listen

wget -O ~/bin/hid_listen https://github.com/tmk/hid_listen/raw/master/binaries/hid_listen.linux \
    && chmod +x ~/bin/hid_listen

KiCad

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kicad/kicad-8.0-releases \
    && sudo apt install -y kicad

Docker

TODO Untested

Install keyring:

sudo curl https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

Configure repo:

echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" \
    | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

Install docker-ce:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y docker-ce

Add user to docker group:

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

Everything else

sudo apt install -y apt-file diceware plocate htop meld highlight arandr \
    net-tools

sudo apt install -y openscad

TODO ssh config

Create versioned config file?

Make the ssh client add keys to the running agent:

echo "AddKeysToAgent yes" >>  ~/.ssh/config