dotfiles

Installation

To download and install the dotfiles run the following command in your terminal:

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Christof/dotfiles/master/install_tools.sh)

This installs:

git
zsh
oh-my-zsh
vim

Afterwards it downloads the dotfiles repository and calls install.sh to create aliases to the config files. Restart the system. If password-error occurs then restart the system and rerun script.

Special Installation Instructions for KDE

If there is no USERNAME variable set, run:

USERNAME=user123 bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Christof/dotfiles/master/install_tools.sh)

The zsh installer may tell you to reopen your terminal and install_tools.sh stops at this point. The command ...

chsh -s /bin/zsh user123

... changes the login shell for the user user123 to zsh. To finish this adjustment of the user configuration it is necessary to stop the current session and login again. Remove or move your ~/.zshrc file because it will be replaced by a symbolic link to the local clone of the dotfiles repository. Put your user specific configurations to ~/.zshrc.user or run

cat .bashrc >> .zshrc.user

Check the ~/.installed folder and rerun the installation script using the zsh.

Vim

Get all vim plugins by executing (in vim):

:PluginInstall

To use powerline fonts, execute ~/Documents/sources/dotfiles/install-powerline-fonts.sh and select a powerline font in the terminal preferences (for example Droid Sans Mono for Powerline).

There are two scripts to customize the settings:

before.vimrc in which the leader should be defined
after.vimrc to change user specific settings like the colorscheme

For YouCompleteMe with C/C++ support run:

cd ~/.vundle/YouCompleteMe
./install.py --clang-completer --system-libclang --system-boost

(do later) For YouCompleteMe with JavaScript support run:

cd ~/.vundle/tern_for_vim
npm install

Git

The .gitconfig file loads a ~/.gitconfig.user file which must be created manually and should user specific settings like:

[user]
  name = Username
  email = username@example.com
[github]
  user = username

You can check this modification with

git config user.name

Gnome Keyring

If you use Github's two factor authentication and want to store the personal access token in the gnome keyring, install it using the package manager:

sudo apt-get install libgnome-keyring-dev

Afterwards go into the git installation directory ~/Documents/sources/git-.../. The execute the following commands:

cd contrib/credential/gnome-keyring
sudo make
sudo cp git-credential-gnome-keyring /usr/local/bin

Zsh

The zsh settings can be customized in the .zshrc.user file where further paths can be added to PATH.

Tmux (Optional)

Use install_tmux.sh script or the package manager, if it contains the same or a newer version:

sudo apt-get install tmux tmuxinator