Spinning up an Ubuntu Box with Vagrant

VagrantUbuntuSetup.md

Install an Ubuntu 12.0.4 Precise box

• Download/Install Vagrant
• Download/Install VirtualBox

VagrantUp Ubuntu box

• mkdir vagrant
• cd vagrant
• vagrant box add ubuntu http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7490647/talifun-ubuntu-11.04-server-i386.box
• vagrant init ubuntu
• vagrant up
• vagrant ssh

Essentials

• sudo apt-get install curl
• sudo apt-get install nfs-common
• gem install puppet --no-ri --no-rdoc
• sudo apt-get install aptitude

Java SDK

• sudo apt-get purge openjdk* (Clean up any old OpenJDK)
• sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/java
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

Mail

• sudo apt-get install postfix

• sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix

• sudo apt-get clean

LAMP

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install tasksel
• sudo tasksel
• (install LAMP and Postgresql)
• sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
• sudo chown -R vagrant:vagrant /var/www

Node.js

• sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install nodejs npm

Ruby on Rails

• curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails
• gem install activerecord-mysql-adapter

Passenger Phusion

• sudo su
• gem install passenger
• apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
• apt-get install libssl-dev
• apt-get install zlib1g-dev
• apt-get install apache2-prefork-dev
• apt-get install libaprutil1-dev
• passenger-install-apache2-module

Modify /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, add

LoadModule passenger_module /home/vagrant/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/passenger-3.0.18/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /home/vagrant/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/passenger-3.0.18
PassengerRuby /home/vagrant/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p327/ruby

MongoDB

• Create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/10gen.list with

  deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen

• sudo apt-get update

• sudo apt-get install mongodb-10gen

• sudo service mongodb start

Git

• sudo apt-get install git

Cleanup (Remove unnessary files and compress space)

• sudo apt-get -y remove linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential
• sudo apt-get -y autoremove
• sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/EMPTY bs=1M
• sudo rm -f /EMPTY