This is a collection of dotfiles that is organized to be maintainable. In order to use this collection of files, follow theses two steps: 1 / Install this package Just run this command from this directory: $ make install This will copy all the dotfiles in your ~/.dotfiles directory. 2 / Link your dotfiles to those provided: Foreach rcfile found in your ~/.dotfiles directory, make a symlink. Example For instance, for using the vimrc configuration provided, just do: $ cd dotfiles $ make install [...] $ cd ~ $ ln -s dotfiles/vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc And you're done.