mhetreramesh / dotfiles

Dotfiles

• This repo contains all the files necessary to set up a workstation.
• The set up is mainly done by ansible and DotBot.
• Run the make commands below to get started. :)

Installation

• To set up our workstation we must first execute sudo make setup. This will install ansible and necessary packages to run the main ansible playbook.
• Once done, we can then run make init. Provide your sudo password.

  This is needed the for the first time.

• Now run make run This will run the main ansible playbook.yml that will setup the work station.

  make check can also be run which will run the ansible playbook in checkmode.

• When the playbook has run to completion.
  • Reboot your system.
  • Log in (but this time click on the setting button next to the login button and select i3)
  • Open the terminal Alt+Enter and walaah!!

The workstation should look something like this when done.

Command Reference

Command	Desciption
make setup	Bootstraps the packages required to run the main playbook.
make init	Sets up proper sudo access for the first time.
make run	Executes the main ansible playbook and installs everything.
make check	Runs the main playbooks in check mode.
make tag	Runs the main playbook with a specific tags. make tag tags=""
make update	Runs the main playbook to only update the workstation

Credits

• zsh
• oh-my-zsh
• Powerlevel10k
• zsh-users
• DotBot
• Alacritty
• NVM
• Brave Browser
• VScode
• Neovim
• i3gaps

And also a large number of vim plugins and third party packages. Thankyou for the awesome OS projects.

Considerations

• Currently this repo can only run with Ubuntu 18.04
• The playbook will set everything up for the user who is running the playbook. Basically for the $(whoami) user.
• DotBot is used to connect the actual dotfiles.
• Deoplete may require running :UpdateRemotePlugins the first time.
• If zsh doesn't start, we have to manully chsh -s $(which zsh) as well in some case.