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Welcome to my Arch laptop setup! Complete with install scripts!

Installation

Prerequisites

What will you need? To run the full installation, you will need two things:

1. Arch Linux (this is an Arch Linux setup), OR a 1-ounce can of Torvalds Brand Elbow Grease For Ambitious Penguins (see the "On Other Distros" section below), AND
2. sudo powers

Process

The scripts in install/ are designed to both initialize new systems with my setup, as well as modify / repair existing ones. To have everything in the system checked over or installed, run the install/all.sh script.

The all.sh script simply executes the other install scripts in a specific sequence. You can try running the scripts individually based on what you need, however they do somewhat depend on each other (for example, link-dots.sh provides .vimrc, which is required for vim.sh to work).

What Does It Do?

Running install/all.sh will do this:

1. Run system.sh, which will...
2. Install the base-devel package group
3. Install the necessary dependencies for yaourt
4. Install yaourt
5. Run link-dots.sh, which will symlink the included dotfiles in your home directory
6. Run link-scripts.sh, which will...
7. Symlink /usr/local/sbin to your home directory
8. Symlink the included util/ scripts into that directory
9. Run link-others.sh, which will...
10. Symlink the included .config directories to ~/.config
11. Symlink the included X11 configurations into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
12. Anything else that I added on after I write this.
13. Run resources.sh, which will install a bunch of packages through yaourt
14. Run bar.sh, which will install my status bar from GitHub
15. Run vim.sh, which will...
16. Install Vundle.vim from GitHub
17. Install the plugins specified in .vimrc
18. Link ~/.vim and ~/.vimrc for Neovim compatibility
19. Run zsh.sh, which will...
20. Install git flow completion for zsh from GitHub
21. Set your login shell to zsh

On Other Distros

Though it's meant for Arch Linux, this setup is absolutely possible on other Linux distributions as well! If you aren't on Arch, take a look at the list of packages in install/resources.sh. If you track down and install the same packages on your distribution, the rest of the installation (that is, all of the scripts in all.sh minus system.sh and resources.sh) should work just fine.

If your system uses a display manager, you'll need to configure it so that it executes your ~/.xinitrc. On Arch, this is accomplished by installing the xorg-xsession package; the method on your distro may be different.

Using The System

I ended up writing a lot about this-- please see USAGE.md.