Base-OS-Setup

This is a standard load-out of my configs and setups -- an attempt to make my development environments repeatable regardless of what OS I'm working in.

Running the setup files for your OS of choice should install common packages and setup dotfiles/sources. The setup files are idempotent. You may run them as often as you like.

Quick Start

FIRST: Check this repo out to ~/dotfiles.

git clone https://github.com/networkerror/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles

Note: If you're in windows, see the sections on Vagrant and Cygwin.

Mac

• Install homebrew.
• Run the following:

cd ~/dotfiles/install/;
./mac_user_setup.sh

• Launch BetterTouchTool and import settings from !/dotfiles/configs/mac/better_touch_settings

Ubuntu

• Run the following

cd ~/dotfiles/install/
sudo ./ubuntu_root_setup.sh

Windows

• Install the goodies listed in windows_packages_WIP. These are handy. I've included some configs for common utils in the configs/windows directory.
• Consider installing cygwin and/or vagrant (see below)

Vagrant

Vagrant is very very portable. It works on Windows (with a few caveats) as well as Mac and Linux. It's easy to blow away and re-build your dev environment over and over again.

• Install Vagrant (google it)
• Install Virtual Box (google it)
• Yes, you need to reboot after you install...
• If you have ssh keys (which you should) place them in a directory called .ssh. This directory must be a sibling of dotfiles. (If you're using this on a mac, it should just work.)
• Boot your vagrant box: cd ~/dotfiles; vagrant up --provision
• You can ssh to your vagrant box like this vagrant ssh (if you're on windows without cygwin, this is a little trickier)
• Your vagrant box is running on a private, virtual IP of 192.168.111.111
• You may want to add that to your /etc/host

A note on windows. You can't use symlinks or run ch*** commands on files synced with your windows OS. This can be an issue at times. In particular, npm install can get hung up if symlinks don't work.

If you need to create a symlinkable node_modules directory, please run npm_mount.js in your project directory. It will help you setup a magical bind mount that will make all (most) of your problems melt away. cd ~/code/my_js_project; npm_mount.js

Cygwin

I use cygwin for exactly one reason - it has a decent *nix-ish console with ssh support. That's it. I use Vagrant for all the heavy lifting.

• Install cygwin (google it)
• Run the following

cd ~/dotfiles/
./cygwin_user_setup.sh

Project Layout

Each directory has scripts or notes to serve a themed purpose.

sources/*.source

*.source files live in the root directory and should be sourced by .bash_profile (See the source_this file for a simple helper.)

configs/

Config files (like vimrc) that are meant to be symlinked/copied to a common sense location.

install/

Stuff in the install directory will do some initial system configuration. These are setup scripts that may or may not be OS-specific.

bin/

This should be added to your path. (It's added automatically in Linux/Mac.) Throw any utilities in here for easy use.