Reinstalling OS X

reinstall-osx.md

Reinstalling OS X

Before reinstalling

• Make full backup
  • Reboot and hold down ⌘R
  • Use disk utility to create bootable image
• Make second backup of data including
  • /Library/Fonts
  • ~/Documents
  • ~/Photos
  • ~/Library/Keychain
• Unregister/deactivate/deauthorize
  • Everything Adobe
  • Resolume Arena
  • iTunes
  • iBooks
• Create a bootable USB install image

Reinstall OS

• Boot from USB (hold down option while booting) or boot into recovery mode (⌘R)

Install App Store Software

• Airmail 2.0
• Pixelmator
• Paprika Recipe Manager
• Reeder 2
• FoldingText
• Logic Pro X
• AmpKit
• VOX
• Gemini
• Kalidascope
• Keynote
• Numbers
• Pages
• Icon Slate
• DaisyDisk
• PDF Squeezer
• Marked
• Day One
• Xcode
• Fantasitcal
• LimeChat
• ForkLift
• MindNode Pro
• Byword
• Evernote
• Kindle

Install Downloadable Applications

• KeyPassX 2
• Little Snitch
• iTerm
• f.lux
• nvALT
• Alfred
  • Yosemite Theme

Install Homebrew

sudo xcodebuild -license
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew doctor

Install core packages

brew install git --with-pcre --with-blk-sha1 --with-brewed-curl --with-brewed-openssl
brew install macvim --with-cscope --with-lua --HEAD --override-system-vim --custom-icons
brew install zsh zsh-completions

Setup zsh with Prezto

zsh
git clone --recursive git://github.com/esturcke/prezto.git "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zprezto"
setopt EXTENDED_GLOB
for rcfile in "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}"/.zprezto/runcoms/^README.md(.N); do
  ln -s "$rcfile" "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.${rcfile:t}"
done
chsh -s /bin/zsh

Setup iTerm preferences

git clone git@github.com:esturcke/iterm-preferences.git ~/Development/iterm-preferences

Then, Preferences > General > Preferences > Load preferences from a custom folder or URL

Setup vim

cd ~/Development/
git clone --recursive git@github.com:esturcke/dot-vim.git
cd dot-vim
./setup

Install a bunch of programming language packages

brew install elixir ghc go --with-cc-all ruby --with-doc rust scala --with-docs --with-src sbt typesafe-activator 

Install other useful programs

brew install ctags elixir git youtube-dl zsh zsh-completions
brew install wireshark --devel

Add to .zshrc

unalias run-help
autoload run-help
HELPDIR=/usr/local/share/zsh/help
fpath=(/usr/local/share/zsh-completions $fpath)

Install meld

brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz
brew install homebrew/x11/meld

Install other useful utilities

brew install mobile-shell multimarkdown nmap pngcrush pstree the_silver_searcher tree wget

Install Adobe CC & CS6

• Download CC Installer and install Photoshop and Lightroom
• Install CS6 from DVD
• Download and install Red Giant Universe
• Download and install Other Red Giant products
• Start Photoshop and and run update

Additionally:

You may also need to force rebuild `zcompdump`:

  rm -f ~/.zcompdump; compinit

Additionally, if you receive "zsh compinit: insecure directories" warnings when attempting
to load these completions, you may need to run this:

  chmod go-w /usr/local/share

  exiftags exiftool exiv2 faac fdk-aac fdupes ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora fontconfig  frei0r fribidi fswatch gawk gcc gd gdbm gdk-pixbuf geoip gettext giter8 glib gmp gnuplot gnutls go gobject-introspection graphicsmagick grc groff gtksourceview  hub hyperestraier icu4c imagemagick intltool iperf isl jasper jpeg lame less lesstif libass libevent libffi libfreenect libgcrypt libglade libgpg-error libmpc libogg libpng libtasn1 libtiff libtool libusb libvo-aacenc libvorbis libvpx libxml2 little-cms2 lua  markdown  memtester mercurial  mongodb movgrab mpfr mtr  nettle nginx ninja  node ntfs-3g opencore-amr openjpeg openssl opus orc osxfuse p11-kit pcre pixman pkg-config   protobuf  qdbm qt qtfaststart r ragel rarian rbenv readline rsync rtmpdump ruby-build rust sbt scala schroedinger scons sdl sdl_image sdl_mixer speex sqlite texi2html  theora tor tuntap unixodbc unrar vpnc webkit2png webp  wxmac x264 xpdf xvid xz yasm

(See https://gist.github.com/esturcke/c3b41a6bf7d783bb7ec5 and http://brew.sh/)

Install Perlbrew & cpanm

\curl -L http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash

Add source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc to .bashrc

perlbrew install stable
perlbrew switch 5.20.1
curl -L https://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus

Set Up NFS Automount

echo '/nfs auto_guppy' | sudo tee -a /etc/auto_master
echo 'guppy guppy:/nfs/data' | sudo tee /etc/auto_guppy
sudo automount -vc

Make Caps Lock Useful

• Download and install Seil and Karabiner

• Open Seil and set caps lock to keycode 80

• Open Karabiner, go to Misc & Uninstall tab and open private.xml

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <root>
        	<item>
        		<name>F19 to F19</name>
  		<appendix>(F19 to Hyper (ctrl+shift+cmd+opt) + F19 Only, send escape)</appendix>
  		<identifier>private.f192f19_escape</identifier>
  		<autogen>
  			--KeyOverlaidModifier--
  			KeyCode::F19,
  			KeyCode::COMMAND_L,
  			ModifierFlag::OPTION_L | ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L | ModifierFlag::CONTROL_L,
  			KeyCode::ESCAPE
  		</autogen>
  	</item>
  </root>
  

• Go to Change Key tab and reload XML

• Check Hyper Key (F19)

• Go to Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... and set Caps Lock to no action

See http://brettterpstra.com/ for original instructions.