Lots of experimentation going on here, so reader beware! I'd like this to have backups, a bash_alias b/c I want to use so many, and a few versions of .spacemacs to choose from
Be warey of the snapshot catastrophe: https://askubuntu.com/questions/140246/how-do-i-resolve-unmet-dependencies-after-adding-a-ppa
When I foolishly installed emacs snapshot this https://askubuntu.com/questions/263460/what-does-error-broken-count-0-mean helped me fix the problem I created