ubuntu/debian notes

notes.md

New Machine Setup

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General Sanity/First items

• re-map CapsLock to control/ESC.

Install xcape.

Depending on your DE, this will be slightly different.

On Mac, Get started with Karibiner and Karibiner-elements

On Gnome 3.x, place the following script in `./profile

On XFCE4, place the following script in a file and use Settings > Session and Startup > Application Autostart tasks to call the file. Note: don't forget to make the file executable first

# make CapsLock behave like Ctrl:
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

# make short-pressed Ctrl behave like Escape:
xcape -e 'Control_L=Escape'

For Gnome 3.x DE, I've had luck placing this in the .profilea For XFCE4, I needed to make a file and call it from Settings > Session and Startup > ApplicationAutostart`

Shell commandline tools

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install zsh: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install zsh set zsh as default: chsh -s /bin/zsh install antigen? (Decide if its best to configure this now or wait until ./makesymlinks runs) install zsh-spaceship (No real install needed, just need to use antigen) install neofetch

install ripgrep For Debian Sid user (MX LINUX too)

curl -LO https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/11.0.1/ripgrep_11.0.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i ripgrep_11.0.1_amd64.deb

Otherwise `sudo apt-get install ripgrep install fzf

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.git ~/.fzf
~/.fzf/install

install tmux: sudo apt-get install tmux install tpm: git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm set true colors download fonts like dank mono, fira mono, operator mono install kitty terminal

curl -L https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/installer.sh | sh /dev/stdin

Languages (these should happen BEFORE neovim as well)

install nvm, node, and npm

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.0/install.sh | bash
nvm --version
nvm install node

install rbenv and then ruby

git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
~/.rbenv/bin/rbenv init
rbenv install [arg]

This is an rbenv plugin that gives you the install command

mkdir -p "$(rbenv root)"/plugins
$ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/ruby-build`
rbenv install [arg]

Install Gem:

sudo apt-get install rubygems
gem install bundler

install python2? install python3?

Neovim

Dependencies

• Plug Manager

curl -fLo ~/.local/share/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

Neovim depends on various provider services. They are:

Ruby provider

gem install neovim

Node Provider

npm install -g neovim

python2 provider

• Not sure if this is correct. I had to manually install pip via:

Installs Pip2
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
python2 -m pip install --user --upgrade pynvim

python3 provider

• Not sure if this is correct. I had to manually install pip via:

installs pip3
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python3.6 get-pip.py
python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pynvim

Finally, install Neovim. Ive had better luck with the command below as it gets the most updated version of Neovim