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Customizing Ubuntu Lucid
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| # Some useful things | |
| apt-get install fortune ack-grep | |
| # Update time hourly - useful for VMs that may be paused | |
| ln -s /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian /etc/cron.hourly/ | |
| # Latest weechat (0.3.6-dev) | |
| add-apt-repository ppa:nesthib/weechat && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get install weechat | |
| # Git config | |
| git config --global user.name "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" | |
| git config --global user.email "benjamin.hawkes-lewis@visualdna.com" | |
| # Latest git (1.7.6) | |
| add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade | |
| # Vim 7.3 | |
| echo 'Package: * | |
| Pin: release a=ubuntu-backports-testers | |
| Pin-Priority: 300 | |
| Package: vim* | |
| Pin: release a=ubuntu-backports-testers | |
| Pin-Priority: 500' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/ubuntu-backports-testers | |
| add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-backports-testers/ppa | |
| apt-get update && apt-get upgrade | |
| # Tmux trunk | |
| cd /usr/local/src | |
| svn co https://tmux.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tmux/trunk tmux | |
| apt-get install libevent-dev libncurses5-dev | |
| cd tmux && sh autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && make install | |
| # Common home | |
| mkdir -p ~/Projects && cd ~/Projects | |
| ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "contact@benjaminhawkeslewis.com" | |
| # Login and add as public key (CTRL-Xe to invoke Vim as editor) | |
| # In Vim :r ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | |
| lynx -editor=vim -accept_all_cookies https://github.com/account/ssh | |
| PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'install HTTP::Lite' | |
| git clone git@github.com:benjaminhawkeslewis/home.git | |
| cd ~/Projects/home | |
| git submodule init | |
| git submodule update | |
| ~/Projects/home/bin/home-symlinks | |
| # Node | |
| cd /usr/local/src | |
| git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git | |
| cd node | |
| git checkout v0.4.10 # Stable tag | |
| ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && make install | |
| # NPM | |
| curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh | |
| # Soda | |
| npm install soda | |
| # Local selenium | |
| apt-get install xvfb firefox # Headless Firefox | |
| apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin # or some other java | |
| mkdir -p /usr/local/share/java | |
| cd /usr/local/share/java | |
| wget https://selenium.googlecode.com/files/selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar | |
| # Start with… | |
| xvfb-run java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar | |
| # Additional browsers | |
| apt-get install chromium-browser | |
| # http://domino.symetrikdesign.com/2011/03/23/installing-opera-11-on-ubuntu-10-04/ | |
| apt-add-repository 'deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free' | |
| wget -qO - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key | sudo apt-key add - | |
| apt-get update && apt-get install opera | |
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nice: write this up in a cookbook run by chef-solo and you are good to go... :)