Dotfiles+other useful things

A collection of config files & setup scripts.

Setup

Install scripts rely on apt. After cloning to $HOME/dotfilesp:

Usage: ./setup_ubuntu.sh [-c] [-z] [-d] [-r] [-g] [-b] [-m] [-y] [-n] [-v] [-N] [-l] [-j] [-p]
        -c      common utilities: neovim, ctags, tmux, htop, xclip, ag, ...
        -z      zsh
        -d      dotfiles
        -r      ROS
        -g      Google Chrome
        -b      Beaglebone libraries
        -m      Miniconda (or Miniforge)
        -y      Yarn (+nodejs)
        -n      NPM (+nodejs)
        -v      Vim (from PPA)
        -N      Neovim
        -l      golang (1.17.1)
        -j      Jekyll + Ruby
        -p      Pipewire (replaces pulseaudio, from PPA)

Symlink structure

Manual installation of dotfiles is possible by copying from ./common/. Alternatively, the -d flag runs setup_ubuntu/linker.sh, which establishes a symlink-based structure with an explicit local/global split.

Linking goes something like this:

1. setup/linker.sh is run from setup.sh
2. Current configuration files (if they exist) are moved to a timestamped directory in ~/dotfilesp/backup/
3. A copy of ~/dotfilesp/template/ is made to ~/dotfilesp/local/
   • These are mostly one-line config files that source the "real" settings stored in ~/dotfilesp/common/
4. Symlinks are made to ~/dotfilesp/local/* from the home directory

Explicitly local changes (usually workspace+environment stuff) can then be made in ~/dotfilesp/local, while global ones are tracked in ~/dotfilesp/common.