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anishathalye / dotbot

A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️
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Dotbot does not link files on Ubuntu 21.04 #286

Closed koenverburg closed 2 years ago

koenverburg commented 2 years ago

Hi,

For some reason, dotbot is acting weird on Ubuntu 21.04 installed on a laptop but also inside a docker container. If I run it with sudo bash ./install from fish and from bash using the same command, I get the same result as shown below.

It works on Windows 10 and Macos.

Screenshot from 2021-08-10 09-43-28

Small note: the config shows that the links are commented out, locally they are not.

Files:

anishathalye commented 2 years ago

I wouldn't recommend running Dotbot with sudo (then all your symlinks will be owned by root).

Could you try running ./install -v for verbose debug output, and paste the messages here?

Also, could you share the original ubuntu.config.yaml, the exact one you are trying on your local machine, without the comments? (incorrect spacing can break YAML, so I wanted to check that for the original file)

koenverburg commented 2 years ago

Running it with -v showed what was wrong, and like you said it had to do with indenting. It's all resolved now. This is the config ended up pushing.

I also fixed my permissions on Ubuntu to run it without sudo, but on Macos I still need to run it with sudo but that can be caused by the software installed by my employer.

Anyway, thanks for the quick response, have a great day!