Desktop install script
I like to have a clean machine and install it fresh every time there is a new Ubuntu release. However, I also want to keep my cool configurations so that’s why I have my dotfiles on GitHub.
In the past when people asked me how I got my shell to look like that, or how they should install rails, what dependencies they need I would either tell them to look at my dotfiles or point them to an article describing how to install it.
A lot of my colleagues have lately been getting into rails and linux overall. So their interest in my dotfiles has also increased. Problem is I spend a lot of time explaining what to do to get their installation to be like mine. So I decided to write a script which does all of that and in case someone is interested in what the script actually does they can just look at the code.
https://github.com/brancz/desktop-install
It is capable of installing
- Essential stuff ( curl, git, build-essentials, vpn, firefox, etc )
- Rails via rvm
- Ansible provisioning software
- Vagrant
- Zsh, vim, and my dotfiles
- fixubuntu
- the heroku toolbelt
- nodejs, npm and karma
When running the script the user selects what to install. (by default everything)
Lately I have been testing it pretty intensively to be sure that it works when upgrading to ubuntu 14.04.
Hope this can help you!
Cheers