machine-setup

My machine setup automated with Ansible.

Installation

Download repo:

curl -L https://api.github.com/repos/rchacon/machine-setup/tarball | tar xz

Setup Ubuntu

Install required apt packages:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-setuptools

Linux Mint 22.3 includes python3.12 which is marked as protected and wouldn't let me install pip packages using --user. The error message required me to use a virtual environment.

sudo apt install python3.12-venv

Activate the virtual env:

python3 -m venv ~/.venv
source ~/.venv/bin/activate

Install ansible via pip:

pip install wheel ansible

Setup Macbook

Warning: This is likely outdated and may not work

Install ansible via homebrew:

/usr/bin/env ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install ansible

Usage

Run playbook:

cd deployment
ansible-playbook -i local <ubuntu.yml|macbook.yml> -K -e "github_name='<FIRST_NAME> <LAST_NAME>'" -e "github_email=<GITHUB_EMAIL>"

It's possible that ansible-playbook was installed somewhere that isn't in your path. The output from pip installing ansible-playbook should say where it was installed.

After Package Control for sublime has been manually installed run post-install tasks:

ansible-playbook -i local <ubuntu.yml|macbook.yml> -K --tags "never,post-install"

Manual Steps

• Enable infinite scroll in terminator (ubuntu)
• Install Chrome and Slack (ubuntu)
• Make bash default shell with chsh -s /bin/bash (macOS)
• Create ssh keys for github accounts (both)
• Install Package Control package and license for Sublime (both)

Caveats

For Ubuntu, your user is added to the docker group but in order for it to take affect you have to logout and log back in.

For macOS, installing virtualbox will fail the first time because of macOS's security settings. After this step fails go into Security settings and enable Oracle then re-run the playbook.