linux-setup

Some scripts for setting up a fresh Linux install

Assumptions

APT Package Manager (Debian based distro)
May be behind corporate proxy

Applications

The follow applications are to be installed and configured.

VS Code
Firefox
Git
Node.js
Docker
Python 3.x
Golang
Azure CLI 2.0
GIMP
Inkscape

Uneeded Packages

The following are packages that come with Ubuntu, but are not desired.

Libre Office
Rhythmbox
Evolution
Empathy

Bash

The ~/.bashrc has personalized customization for BASH.

Proxy

If behind a corporate proxy, the following must be setup to enable internet access. The files in ~/.proxy can help automate enabling and disabling the proxy settings across multiple systems.

Many applications look for an environment variable HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY, but not all of them.

If using VirtualBox and the corporate proxy requires Windows authentication, you can install Fiddler on the host OS and enable Automatically Authenticate. Then the proxy configuration in the guest OS should point at the port on the local host where Fiddler is capturing traffic.

Environment Variables

To ensure environment variables are injected into all new sessions, the following should be appended to /etc/environment:

http_proxy="http://$ADDRESS:$PORT/"
https_proxy="http://$ADDRESS:$PORT/"
ftp_proxy="ftp://$ADDRESS:$PORT/"
socks_proxy="socks://$ADDRESS:$PORT/"

Gnome

To set the Gnome window manager proxy configuration, run the following:

gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode $MODE_MANUAL
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http host $ADDRESS
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.http port $PORT
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https host $ADDRESS
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.https port $PORT
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp host $ADDRESS
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.ftp port $PORT
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host $ADDRESS
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port $PORT

Aptitude

To configure the proxy in aptitude (Debian pacakage manager), the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/95proxies file must be updated with the following:

Acquire::http::proxy "http://$ADDRESS:$PORT/";
Acquire::https::proxy "https://$ADDRESS:$PORT/";
Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://$ADDRESS:$PORT/";
Acquire::socks::proxy "socks://$ADDRESS:$PORT/";

If using Gnome, setting the proxy via the UI will automatically update aptitude proxy configuration.

Git

To configure the proxy in Git, run:

git config --global http.proxy $ADDRESS:$PORT
git config --global https.proxy $ADDRESS:$PORT

NPM

To configure the proxy in NPM, run:

npm config set proxy http://$ADDRESS:$PORT
npm config set https-proxy http://$ADDRESS:$PORT

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