mblair / setup

Tool to set up my Ubuntu workstations.

Setup

This is the tool I use to set up my Ubuntu workstations at home.

USAGE

• Enter wireless password.

• sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install xclip git byobu

• byobu

• ssh-keygen -q -b 4096 -t rsa -N [passphrase] -f /home/matt/id_rsa

• cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | xclip -selection clipboard

• Add the SSH key to GitHub.

• git clone [e-mail]:mblair/setup.git

• git clone [e-mail]:mblair/personal.git

• git clone [e-mail]:mblair/ruby_the_hard_way.git

• cd setup

• sudo su

• Change the password in emailer.py

• time ./setup.sh 2>&1 | tee /home/matt/output

• Change power & screen saver settings.

• git config --global github.token <token>

• Restart.

• Open Firefox, download and install Dropbox.

• Set chromium-browser settings: sync, download location, fonts.

• Configure gnome-terminal & Nautilus.

• Configure the rest of the system settings.

• Remove the first entries (GitHub) from ~/.ssh/known_hosts since they were added before HashKnownHosts was turned off.

• Hit 'Install Drivers' to get the restricted drivers tray icon to go away on your laptop (boo Broadcom).

• Install this

• ssh-copy-id shortname for all of my servers.

• Build thumbnails.

• Install Virtualbox Extension Pack, guest OSs & Guest Additions.

• Configure Rhythmbox (may no longer be necessary).

• Configure Deluge (download location, ports, bandwidth) (may no longer be necessary)

TODO

• Set up an APT mirror at home, like this, so apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't take so long.

• Try building deluge yourself, since the version in the deluge-team ppa doesn't have a launcher.

• Create a Debian archive for git/python/vim/pidgin/etc, like Debra, using these two resources, so you only have to build packages once per release.

• Easy updates based on versions.sh (upgrade/downgrade/outdated). Upgrade uninstalls the old packages, grab the new source, compile, build, install. Downgrade does the same, needs an explicit version. Outdated compares installed versions with versions.sh. Upgrade without a package upgrades all.

• Automate the screen bootstrapping, possibly with techniques from here.

• An automatic installer, like oh-my-zsh and RVM. Have it bootstrap Git via a Gist or a standalone script in this repo, then clone this repo (via https, since you can't add your public key without your API key being available somehow) and get going.

• Figure out restart functionality, like so.

• Figure out why installing Python from source is breaking Rhythmbox.

• Possibly switch to Clementine.

• Put GnuPG instructions in here.

No longer important:

• Refactor so you can run arbitrary setup scripts and still use the main versions.sh/functions.sh. So 'movein' (all of what setup currently performs) would become a recipe of sorts, demoted to the same level as 'gitweb' or 'nginx'.
• Make the name of the added user configurable.
• Nicer directory structure (packages go in a separate folder)
• Use Roundup. This looks awesome.
• Organize stuff into functions, not just files. Then you can source everything, and run func || die so your error handler knows where shit hit the fan.
• Man pages using ronn once you've got some useful flags that require explanation.
• Makefile like this or a Rakefile like this. Probably a Makefile, since you won't have to jump through hoops just to get it to run.
• Source documentation with Shocco. Expand flags in the source so you have less documentation to write (just explain short ones that don't have a long form).
• Bash completion, based on Homebrew's.
• Nested READMEs. I didn't realize this was possible.
• Check out Aruba for testing. Here's another example. And here is a video. And a blog post.
• Test changes with vagrant before committing.
• Set up a Jenkins instance to test changes locally via Vagrant before you push to GitHub, as well as any pull requests before merging them.
• Have emailer.py mention time taken and attach a log of the output. Remove the time from the setup.sh invocation.
• Nicer error handling (see test.sh), have emailer.py mention what section failed.
• Fix these: grep -Pinr "^[\t]*if[^=]*=[^=]" *, making them all use double equals. Bash accepts singles but they look scary.
• Easy way to upgrade/uninstall setup itself (like RVM's get head and implode, or brew update)
• Make the timezone configurable.
• File where you can declare what's installed, not just 'movein' or 'nginx'; how about both?
• See what gstreamer packages are installed by the Ubuntu desktop installer's non-free option, and see if removing the others from desktop.sh will affect totem-video-thumbnailer, since you use VLC anyway.
• Make sure you mention that this needs to be run as root, and that it updates your system (and therefore should be run on a fresh box).
• Better SSH security like so
• Nice installation messages like railsready and RVM.
• Figure out a Vim version string that doesn't cause apt to want to update it. Probably 2:blah.
• Versions with a VERSION file.
• Changelog, or something like git commit -v that shows you a diff since the last tag and lets you write a changelog. I'm not sure commit messages make the most sense for a changelog.
• A HACKING file that talks about internals, once they're ready to be talked about.
• Add a progress bar.
• Create a Yum repository, possibly. Here's a tutorial, I think.
• Make this work with Arch, but only customization (dotfiles, whatever else) since Arch stays current and is source-based. Plus FPM doesn't do Arch.
• Gentoo support. Maybe.
• Figure out how to profile this, possibly like so.

LICENSE

MIT. See LICENSE for details.