INSTALL.macos.md

First Time Install Instructions for Mac OS

• System Preferences | Sharing | Set Computer Name (CLI automated)
• System Preferences | Sharing | Tick Remote Login
• System Preferences | Trackpad | Scroll & Zoom | untick Scroll Direction (CLI automated)
• Set Screenprint to dedicated location (CLI automated)
• Set default shell to bash (CLI automated)

# Set Computer Name
HOSTNAME="newname"
hostname
sudo scutil --set LocalHostName ${HOSTNAME}. #.local causes error
sudo scutil --set ComputerName ${HOSTNAME}
dscacheutil -flushcache
hostname

# Enable Remote Login
sudo systemsetup -setremotelogin on

# Turn off backwards scroll
defaults write -g com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool FALSE

# Set dedicated screenprint directory
mkdir -p ${HOME}/screenprints
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location  ~/screenprints

# Set to bash shell
chsh -s /bin/bash

Brew Setup

Brew is the essential CLI package manager for MAC OS.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
(echo; echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"') >> /Users/rbradfor/.bash_profile
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

# Essential simple CLI utilities
brew install wget htop rsync jq yq xq pigz shellcheck

iTerm

Improved Terminal manager

brew install iterm2
mkdir -p $HOME/log

iTerm Settings

• iTerm | Settings | Profiles |
• • Terminal | Unlimited scrollback
• • Terminal | Tick Silence Bell
• • Session | Automatically log session imput to files & tick log plain text

Terminal Settings

Fix these for default terminal program also.

• Terminal | Settings | Profiles
• • Advanced | untick Audible bell
• • Advanced | untick Visual bell

Python Setup

# xz is pre-requisite for lzma in python
brew install xz pyenv pyenv-virtualenv
pyenv --version
pyenv versions
pyenv install -l
pyenv install -l | grep 3.1[0-9]
pyenv install 3.12.1
pyenv global 3.12.1
echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo '[[ -d $PYENV_ROOT/bin ]] && export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
exec "$SHELL"
python --version

Common Application Stack

• Install Google Chrome
• Install Firefox
• Install Atom
• Install VLC
• Install Audicity
• Install Slack
• Install Discord
• Install Signal
• Install Zoom
• Install Docker
• Install MacVIM
• Install ImageMagick

brew install google-chrome firefox
brew install atom vlc slack  discord signal docker macvim imagemagick
brew install --cask zoom
brew install --cask audacity

Mac Doc helper

https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil

# Requires Python to run
# Sonoma is broken, requires actual /usr/bin/python?
brew install dockutil

dockutil --remove 'Maps' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'Podcasts' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'TV' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'FaceTime' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'Messages' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'Mail' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'Contacts' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'Calendar' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'News' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'Numbers' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'Keynote' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'Pages' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'Music' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'App Store' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'Reminders' --allhomes
dockutil --remove 'Notes' --allhomes

Tools one uses regularly

• git
• psql
• mysql
• aws
• gcloud
• az

brew install git libpq mysql-client awscli azure-cli
brew install --cask google-cloud-sdk
echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/bin:$PATH"' >> /Users/rbradfor/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/mysql-client/bin:$PATH"' >> /Users/rbradfor/.bash_profile

Web Development

brew install npm
node -v
npm -v
npx -v

Personalization Steps

• Internal SSH key

ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -q -N ""

TODO

• whisper