These are notes for tracking how to reproduce my workstation. The target audience is me, so it may not be easy to read. Applications that don't relate to programming, mathematics, multimedia and the system aren't included in here.
First I installed Windows, as some software I need for school cannot be ran in a virtual machine. Then, I installed Pop!_OS 20.10, with a btrfs filesystem.
The first thing I did with the system was set up backups with timeshift. I installed Timeshift from the Pop store, and created the @ and @home subvolumes.
sudo btrfs sub snapshot / /@
sudo btrfs sub cr /@home
sudo vi /etc/fstab
# Added `subvol=@ option` to `/` mount point.
# Created `/home` mount point with option `subvol=@home`.
sudo vi /boot/efi/loader/entries/Pop_OS-current.conf
# Added `rootflags=subvol=@` to end of options.
sudo vi /etc/kernelstub/configuration
# Added `rootflags=subvol=@` to kernel options.
Upon rebooting, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and create a /home/<username> directory. Now we can create backups in timeshift.
Since my ISP does not allow hairpinning, we can add the local server IP to /etc/hosts. Generate SSh keys with ssh-keygen -t ed25519, and install them onto the server with ssh-copy-id <server>. Password authentification can then be removed on the server in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. To make sure ssh logs into the user pi automatically, add the following to ~/.ssh/config
Host <server/alias>
HostName <server>
User pi
Create an ssh-agent with ssh-agent bash, and add the key ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519. Now you can log in with ssh <server/alias>. Also note that the local computer name and ip address can be set within gnome settings.
Then, I installed KeePassXC and Dropbox from Software, so I could log into other services. On Firefox, I installed HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger, and Grammarly. A simple firewall is set up with gufw from the pop store. In settings I assigned a static IP and manually set my DNS (google: 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4, cloudflare: 1.1.1.1,1.0.0.1). Also, up the Blank screen time to Never in Power.
Create a new bashrc, and set up a simple prompt
touch ~/.bashrc
vi ~/.bashrc
And add the following
export PS1="\[\033[44m\]\u@\h:\w\[\033[00m\]\n\$ "
Then I installed the following from Pop! Shop:
krita
gimp
inkscape
audacity
cheese
musescore
thunderbird
mpv
vlc
obs
hardinfo
wxmaxima
gnome web
filezilla
chromium
lmms
sonic pi
libresprite
rhythembox
The following from apt:
gnome-shell-extensions
gimp
ssh
tmux
bashtop
mesa-utils
ubuntu-restricted-extras
traceroute
I installed the following from the internet:
- Language Tool
- Hemminway Editor (filefox download + installed as app with Gnome Web)
The following was installed via apt:
libreoffice libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb
texlive-full
python-pygments
fonts-hack fonts-firacode ubuntustudio-fonts
espeak-ng mbrola mbrola-en* mbrola-us*
The following was installed via Pop! Shop:
scribus
manuskript
gnome todo
pdf arranger
I installed Blender from the Pop! Shop, and installed the UvSquares plugin.
I installed VirtualBox from Pop! Shop. Here's what I put on my Virtual Machine for right now.
I installed RStudo from the internet.
From Pop! Shop, I installed:
Geogebra
Octave
I installed the following from apt
racket
godot3
hugo
npm nodejs # for emacs
From Pop! Shop I installed:
devhelp
glade
builder
neovim
I installed Emacs from source, and Spacemacs.
Top install Emacs from source, run:
apt build-dep emacs
apt install libgnutls28-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev mailutils libgccjit-10-dev libjanson-dev
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git -b feature/native-comp
./autogen
./configure --with-native-compilation --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-cairo --with-xwidgets --with-json
make
make install
git clone -b develop https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d
I installed nodejs with nvm-sh.
I don't have any Rust projects going on, so this section is mostly focused on Haskell for now. For Ghcup dependancies, install sudo apt install libgmp-dev libffi-dev libncurses-dev libtinfo5. Then I Installed Nix package manager, Rust, Stack, and Ghcup. I rebooted here to add everything into my PATH. Then upgraded GHC to latest version with
ghcup install latest
ghcup set latest
Then downloaded default Stack with stack setup, and then install some tools with
stack install hoogle
hoogle generate
stack install hlint
stack install brittany
I installed the latest version of LLVM+Clang that GHC supports (try running ghc on a simple .hs file with -fllvm to see which version it supports). I also installed valgrind, latex, and hugo. We can search avalible versions with
nix-env -qa 'llvm.*'
nix-env -qa 'clang.*'
nix-env -qa 'texlive.*'
nix-env -qa valgrind
nix-env -qa hugo
Then install them with
nix-env -i llvm-9.0.1
nix-env -i clang-wrapper-9.0.1
nix-env -i texlive-combined-full-2019
nix-env -i hugo-0.69.0