Debian Linuxλ︎
Debian Linux provides support for the widest range of hardware of any Linux distribution.
The Debian project established the high-quality .deb package system which ensures all packages are consitenly defined and manage dependencies.
Installλ︎
Debian provides ISO images which can be burned onto compact disks or USB memory sticks.
The net install image is small and quick to download, containing only the essential packages to run an operating system.
Post Installλ︎
root vs sudoλ︎
Debian recommends using the root account to administer the system, rather than using sudo as with Ubuntu
su - command in a terminal changes to the root user, upon entering a successful root password at the prompt
root password is set during install of Debian
Dedicated terminal for root account
Open a terminal application specifically to use the root account when carrying out significant maintenance, e.g. installing many packages during the post install.
Set XDG freedesktop locationsλ︎
Git installλ︎
root@londo:~# apt install git Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: git-man liberror-perl patch Suggested packages: git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-email git-gui gitk gitweb git-cvs git-mediawiki git-svn ed diffutils-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: git git-man liberror-perl patch 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 9,377 kB of archives. After this operation, 48.0 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Clone practicalli/dotfilesλ︎
clone to projects/practicalli/dotfiles
Git configureλ︎
link .config/git to Practicall dotfiles/git directory
Update identity-practicalli-john file with annonymous email address from GitHub settings > Emails section
Kitty Terminalλ︎
Debian packages
- kitty
- kitty-doc
- kitty-shell-integration
- kitty-terminfo
fonts-firacodeuse by Practicalli Kitty terminal
Link to practicalli/dotfiles/kitty in .config directory
Zsh and Preztoλ︎
Install zsh package using su -
as the user account, zsh command to change to zsh from bash shell
check if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set, if not set to $HOME/.config on command line (practicalli dotfiles has a zshenv that does this later in process)
clone prezto to XDG location
link customised configuration files to practicalli dotfiles/zsh
- .zprezto practicalli customisations for Prezto
- .zprofile includes .local/bin on execution path
- .zshrc aliases for neovim configurations (astro, practicalli
- .zshenv configures XDG locations
cd .config/zsh ls -la total 112 drwxr-xr-x 3 practicalli practicalli 4096 Aug 9 16:10 . drwx------ 12 practicalli practicalli 4096 Aug 8 20:54 .. drwxr-xr-x 6 practicalli practicalli 4096 Aug 8 19:09 .zprezto -rw-r--r-- 1 practicalli practicalli 92846 Aug 8 20:45 .p10k.zsh lrwxrwxrwx 1 practicalli practicalli 53 Aug 8 20:35 .zlogin -> /home/practicalli/.config/zsh/.zprezto/runcoms/zlogin lrwxrwxrwx 1 practicalli practicalli 54 Aug 8 20:35 .zlogout -> /home/practicalli/.config/zsh/.zprezto/runcoms/zlogout lrwxrwxrwx 1 practicalli practicalli 62 Aug 8 20:38 .zpreztorc -> /home/practicalli/projects/practicalli/dotfiles/zsh/.zpreztorc lrwxrwxrwx 1 practicalli practicalli 55 Aug 8 20:35 .zprofile -> /home/practicalli/.config/zsh/.zprezto/runcoms/zprofile lrwxrwxrwx 1 practicalli practicalli 59 Aug 8 20:36 .zshenv -> /home/practicalli/projects/practicalli/dotfiles/zsh/.zshenv -rw------- 1 practicalli practicalli 1460 Aug 9 16:10 .zsh_history lrwxrwxrwx 1 practicalli practicalli 58 Aug 8 20:36 .zshrc -> /home/practicalli/projects/practicalli/dotfiles/zsh/.zshrc
Neovimλ︎
Required packages
curl- suggested by neovim checkhealthgduxclipprovider for accessing operating system clipboard from Neovimluarocksrequired for some mason installed toolslazygitterminal UI git client used by AstroNvim
btmis suggested but not available as a Debian packages
Nodejsλ︎
Nodejs is required for many of the linters installed by Mason.
node and npm are available as packages, although the npm package has a great many dependencies (many of which seem redundant).
Download from nodejs website
Extract to ~/.local/apps/nodejs
Create a symbolic link to make it simpler to use alternate versions of node and npm
Create symbolic links for node and npm to add them to the OS excecution path
ln -s ~/.local/apps/nodejs/current/bin/node ~/.local/bin/node &&
ln -s ~/.local/apps/nodejs/current/bin/npm ~/.local/bin/npm &&
If a different version of nodejs is installed, then all that should be required is deleting and recreating the current symbolic link in ~/.local/apps/nodejs/ to point to the desired version.
Releasesλ︎
Download latest appimage for neovim from Neovim repository releases page
chmod u+x nvim.appimage
Debian specific? - mkdir ~/.local/bin
mv nvim.appimage ~/.local/bin
ln -s ~/.local/bin/nvim.appimage ~/.local/bin/nvim
Edit .config/zsh/.zprofile and add $HOME/.local/bin to paths to search for executables
Set the list of directories that Zsh searches for programs. path=( $HOME/.local/{,s}bin(N) /opt/{homebrew,local}/{,s}bin(N) /usr/local/{,s}bin(N) $path )
source .zprofile to update the path and include the .local/bin
Configure nvimλ︎
Clone astronvim configuration and Practicalli Astronvim configuration
Add aliases to .z call different neovim configurations
alias astro="NVIM_APPNAME=astronvim nvim" alias lazyvim="NVIM_APPNAME=lazyvim nvim" alias practicalli-redux="NVIM_APPNAME=neovim-config-redux nvim"