Getting started

The Python requirements are all in requirements.txt, so before starting you need to issue the following command:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt --user

without using sudo. Using sudo with pip is a bad idea because it will interfere with your distribution's package manager.

If on a fresh install, you won't have pip installed, so you'll need:

$ sudo pacman -S python-pip

or

$ sudo apt install python3-pip

The authentication details are stored in secrets. Therefore, you have a template secrets.template that you need to copy and rename:

$ cp secrets{.template,}

Modify the resulting file, and then run ./install.py with needed flags (./install.py -h is your friend).

About the files in the repo

• arch-desktop_borg.sh
  Borg backup script. Used by a pacman hook to backup my system.

• configs.yml
  Lists the things to install, which includes programs, symlinks, git clones, shell commands...

• dotfiles/
  The actual dotfiles. They are symlinked to the location that the system expects to find them.

• install.py
  Installs everything using configs.yml. This is the file to actually run.

• firefox_addons.txt
  I like to install my Firefox add-ons manually in the Firefox add-on manager, so this file just reminds me what to install and includes the urls to each add-on.

• pacman_hooks/
  You need to manually copy or symlink any hook to /etc/pacman.d/hooks/ to activate it.

• shellcheck_binary_fix.sh
  When running this on Manjaro, pacman was unable to find the shellcheck package, so this script installs the pre-compiled binary instead. If your package manager finds shellcheck, this script won't run.

• todo
  Never seems to remain empty...

Thanks

The idea for the architecture was taken from Dimitri Merejkowsky's GitHub.