instructinos coming soon
That's it.
ArchWater-AutoInstaller is a script that autoinstalls and autoconfigures a fully-functioning and minimal terminal-and-vim-based Arch Linux environment.
ArchWater-AutoInstaller can be run on a fresh install of Arch or Artix Linux, and provides you with a fully configured diving-board for work or more customization.
ArchWater-AutoInstaller will parse the given programs list and install all given programs. Note
that the programs file must be a three column .csv.
The first column is a "tag" that determines how the program is installed, ""
(blank) for the main repository, A for via the AUR or G if the program is a
git repository that is meant to be make && sudo make installed.
The second column is the name of the program in the repository, or the link to the git repository, and the third column is a description (should be a verb phrase) that describes the program. During installation, ArchWater-AutoInstaller will print out this information in a grammatical sentence. It also doubles as documentation for people who read the CSV and want to install my dotfiles manually.
Depending on your own build, you may want to tactically order the programs in your programs file. ArchWater-AutoInstaller will install from the top to the bottom.
If you include commas in your program descriptions, be sure to include double quotes around the whole description to ensure correct parsing.
The script is extensively divided into functions for easier readability and trouble-shooting. Most everything should be self-explanatory.
The main work is done by the installationloop function, which iterates
through the programs file and determines based on the tag of each program,
which commands to run to install it. You can easily add new methods of
installations and tags as well.
Note that programs from the AUR can only be built by a non-root user. What
ArchWater-AutoInstaller does to bypass this by default is to temporarily allow the newly created
user to use sudo without a password (so the user won't be prompted for a
password multiple times in installation). This is done ad-hocly, but
effectively with the newperms function. At the end of installation,
newperms removes those settings, giving the user the ability to run only
several basic sudo commands without a password (shutdown, reboot,
pacman -Syu).