Development Environment for Humans

This repository should help you to quickly setup a clean development environment based on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS on your machine.

Before Starting

Download Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS 64bit from ubuntu.com and install it on your machine.

Then, start your machine and log in to the desktop. Deactivate online results from the dash by following the instructions from askubuntu.com (Settings -> Privacy -> Search Results: set include online results to no).

Now, please activate Canonical partner sources for the apt-get package manager. Got to Settings -> Applications & Updates -> Other Software and enable Canonical-Partner.

Curl is the only dependency that we will need, and it is bundled with Ubuntu 14.04. For other versions of Ubuntu make sure you have curl installed by running sudo apt-get install -y curl.

Getting started

First, install the setup (Python, Git and Ansible) by running follwoing command from the terminal. This will automatically clone the dev-env repository to your machine to the ~/.dev-env directory.

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chaosmail/dev-env/master/setup.sh | bash -

Installing, updating and configuring

After running the above setup script, you can automatically install and configure all your development applications with Ansible by running the following command.

dev-env

What's included?

At the moment, following packages will be automatically installed and configured:

• common: curl, gcc, nmap, wget, make, git, openssl
• chromium: installation
• dropbox: installation
• encfs: installation
• filezilla: installation
• jekyll: insallation
• keepassx: installation
• nautilus: configuration open in terminal
• nodejs: installation and install npm packages (define in group_vars/all.yml)
• packer: installation
• python: build 3.4.3 from source, install pip2 and pip3 packages (define in group_vars/all.yml)
• ruby: installation
• skype: installation and unity wrapper
• spotify: installation
• sublime: installation, package manager and popular packages (define in group_vars/all.yml)
• vagrant: installation
• virtualbox: installation

Development

To debug the configuration you can simply add the tags: debug statement to a tasks and then call the following command to execute these tasks.

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i hosts --ask-sudo-pass --tags debug

The domain http://env.sh-install.ch is a shortcut and automatically forwards to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chaosmail/dev-env/master/.