TODOS

AFTER INSTALLING A LINUX DISTRO.

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• Get curl, zsh, vim, git, cmus, cmatrix, neofetch, vlc, pip, tree

  sudo apt install curl zsh vim git cmus cmatrix neofetch vlc python3-pip tree

  Get configured zsh shell.

  sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

• nodejs, atom or another text editor, youtube-dl

  For nodejs

  For atom

  For youtube-dl

  sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
  sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

  Audio from youtube can downloaded with command yt , alias set in .zshrc. You need to source it after downloading youtube-dl though.

• Copy .zshrc

Check the aliases, if they're configured. Source .zshrc after configuring it.

• For .vimrc

  Download vim plug for required plugins.

  curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

  Then, run :PlugInstall and restart vim.

• pyenv

  If needed, get from here. The echo commands are used to write in .zshrc, which is already in the given .zshrc file above.

  git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv
  
  echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.zshrc
  echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
  
  echo -e 'if command -v pyenv 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then\n  eval "$(pyenv init -)"\nfi' >> ~/.bash_profile
  
  exec "$SHELL"

• Fixing npm permissions

  If you see an EACCES error when you try to install a package globally, you can either:

  mkdir ~/.npm-global
  npm config set prefix '~/.npm-global'
  

  Add this line to .zshrc, though should be already in that above file.

  export PATH=~/.npm-global/bin:$PATH
  

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FOR ARCH

Default terminal set to terminator in i3 config.

sudo pacman -S terminator

To get wifi up in arch

• Install basedevel, networkmanager

sudo pacman -S base-devel networkmanager

• Install yay

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

• Install broadcom drivers

yay broadcom-wl-dkms
cd broadcom-wl-dkms
makepkg -si

Then, yay and broadcom drivers will be installed in the system.

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• While installing networkmanager, nmcli will be installed as well.

nmcli device wifi list
nmcli device wifi connect 'SSID' password 'password'

The wifi should now be connected.

sudo ls /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/

On running this command, you should get this output:

'SSID.nmconnection'

After this, wifi will be connected to the system and will remain connected on reboot.

AUDIO

I use alsamixer is used for audio.

sudo pacman -S alsa-utils alsa-lib

Then, open alsamixer

alsamixer

Adjust the volume there. Then sound should work.

POLYBAR

I got this polybar theme from here and customized it a bit for my system.

To use this properly, we need fonts installed. This can be done by running this command:

# navigate to the folder
cd .config/polybar

# install fonts
cp -r fonts/* ~/.local/share/fonts

# reload font cache
fc-cache -v

# remove if it exists
sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf

# launch the polybar
~/.config/polybar/launch.sh

The script to launch it is in the i3 config file as well.

VIM and ZSH

To install them,

sudo pacman -S vim zsh

For configurations, same as mentioned above, for debian/ubuntu system.