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Ubuntu 20 Desktop Post-Installation Script

Repository: https://github.com/dongskyler/ubuntu-20-desktop-post-installation-script

Description

This Bash script installs and configures essential programs on a freshly installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop (Focal Fossa). See the full list of programs to be installed here.

Although Ubuntu is a well made Linux distro, things are really easy to break, when I do software development, when I frequently sudo commands and when I try out new things. Consequently, I often reinstall operating systems on my computers (especially my Linux). I am tired of reinstalling and reconfiguring programs by hand.

I wrote this script to automate the installations and configurations of essential programs — including Google Chrome, LaTex, Nginx, Node.js, PHP, Python 3, Ruby on Rails, Vim, VS Code, etc — so that I can immediately work on projects without spending time setting up the environment.

The code is under MIT license. You can modify the code to suit your needs.

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How to use this script

Option 1: Using Git

Copy and paste the following command into your terminal and press "Enter":

sudo apt-get update -y &&
  sudo apt-get install -y git &&
  git clone \
    https://github.com/dongskyler/ubuntu-20-desktop-post-installation-script.git \
    "~/.ubuntu-post-installation" --depth 1 &&
  cd "~/.ubuntu-post-installation/" &&
  bash ./main.sh

Option 2: Downloading this repository as a Zip file

Download this repository as a ZIP file. You do need the entire repository to properly run this script.
Unzip it to a directory.
Change directory to unzipped directory.
Run the shell script with command (without sudo)
bash ./main.sh

Programs to be installed

ClamAV and ClamTK
cURL
Docker
ElasticSearch
ELinks
Flameshot
Git
GnuPG
Google Chrome
MongoDB Community Edition
MySQL
Nginx
- http://localhost:5000 pointing at "~/Sites/", with Nginx and PHP hooked up
Node.js
Node Version Manager (nvm)
Node Package Manager (npm)
PHP
- http://localhost:5000 pointing at "~/Sites/", with Nginx and PHP hooked up
- Packages to be installed
  - php
  - php-fpm
  - php-mysql
PulseAudio
Python 3
- Virtual environment powered by virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper
  - A virtual environment named jupyter will be created.
  - Use command workon jupyter to activate.
  - Use command deactivate to deactivate the virtual environment.
  - Insider jupyter virtual environment, the following packages will be installed:
    - Jupyter Notebook
    - numpy
    - pandas
    - matplotlib
Skype
Slack
Rails
Ruby with rbenv
Terminal theme: 'Earthsong'
TexLive
Tor
Tor Browser
Vim
VirtualBox (Please install it manually with commands here)
Visual Studio Code
- Extensions to be installed
  - bmewburn.vscode-intelephense-client
  - dsznajder.es7-react-js-snippets
  - eamodio.gitlens
  - esbenp.prettier-vscode
  - foxundermoon.shell-format
  - james-yu.latex-workshop
  - jdforsythe.add-new-line-to-files
  - ms-python.python
  - sibiraj-s.vscode-scss-formatter
  - visualstudioexptteam.vscodeintellicode
Wget
Yarn
Zoom
Zsh
- Add syntax highlighting functionality
- Set Zsh theme to 'bira'
- Change the default shell from Bash to Zsh

Programs to be uninstalled

None yet

Configurations

Install a new terminal profile
- Install profile 'Earthsong'
- Set 'Earthsong' as the default profile
Pin the following favorite apps (and only the following ones in that order) to the dash
- Files
- Terminal
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
- Slack
- Zoom
- Skype
- Settings

Logs

A log will be generated at "~/.ubuntu_post_install.log".

If the log file is already present, new logs will be appended to the file.

Notes

VirtualBox is excluded from the installation script, due to complications of its interactive full-window dialogues of agree-to-terms and MOK key setups.

Please install it manually with the following command:

wget -qO- \
  http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox_2016.asc |
  sudo apt-key add -
printf "\
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian \
focal non-free contrib\n" |
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.org.list

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y virtualbox-6.1

You may want to install the VirtualBox Extension Pack as well:

sudo apt-get install -y virtualbox-ext-pack

License

The code is under MIT license.

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Bash script for automated program installations and environment setups on Ubuntu 20 Desktop, making it immediately usable for software development (JavaScript/Node, Python, PHP and Ruby on Rails)