Debian Bootstrapping Todo

[kris-chin]

TODO:

Core Fixes:

• [x] Ensure NPM is installed via nvm before attempting to install angular cli
• [x] auto create ~/org/roam (maybe even make this a submodule for your roam notes?)
• [x] ensure permission changes for certain folders

Improvements:

• [ ] cache steps if already successfully completed (im looking at you apt-get and doom)
• [ ] Better nerd font for ubuntu
• [ ] ensure that user is NOT running install script via sudo (this fucks up the font-installation script, which due to double-sudo, causes $HOME to be set to /root/)
• [ ] easier-to-read feedback on font install script if the font installed to /root/ or your actual home
• [x] try this on wsl?
  • [ ] might as well try to add youtube-dl if im gonna use this on wsl
• [ ] also, how much MB does it installation cause?

[kris-chin]

For WSL:

I ended up needing to re-run the script approx 3 times.

• Once because of the oh-my-zsh interruption
• another because node 20 was not installed and there wasnt a command to install it via nvm prior to attempting to install @angular/cli
• another because make was missing from the installed packages list, which prevented ruby-dev from building colorls.
  • This should be fixed now, I should attempt to re-bootstrap with a new WSL

Neovim Permissions Issue

There's an ongoing bug though where neovim still isn't properly installing "lazy" properly, not sure how to fix this yet it's related to permissions.

• For some reason, I needed to modify the permissions of the ~/.local folder, but that didnt fix anything, just removed a permission denied error
• Neovim's Data directory: ~/.local/share/nvim` I dont have anything in here. maybe that's whats causing the lazy issue?
  • Bruh, I fixed it. Even though adding permissions to the .local folder helped with the first error, I needed to explicitly add permissions to ~/.local/share for lazy to be installed I think I need to add some permission changes for certain folders to ensure this doesnt happen agian.

There's also emacs... Oh little emacs...

GWSL

In order to get the emacs gui to show up, we need to make sure that we can run X on top of WSL. Currently, I don't think we are doing that.

oh-my-zsh

I found an advanced tutorial for automated-installation. I should check this out

NVM

Apparently, the terminal needs to be reset in order for nvm to be recognized (probably due to a new env var being exported). I need to add

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

somewhere so I can use it during the script, so far, NVM still wasn't even recognized.

rustc and cargo upon installation

rustc and cargo have some errors upon initial install. not sure why. maybe the universe repository isnt added initially?

gem still not properly building gems

so, I have ruby, ruby-dev, and make, i saw somewhere that WSL specifically also needs build-essential? also gcc as another thing. gcc should already be installed, but i guess i'll add it to the config just in case. (neovim also needed gcc for a plugin)

init files not sourced

after successful installation, it seems like zsh isn't opening with the new config? my zshrc isn't being loaded. the issue: my .zshrc was not being replaced with the symlink, so it was loading the old .zshrc. im not sure why dotbot doesnt override this. i don't know how to fix this. this also happened with .bashrc as well sometimes on mint