JESBANG

Quick and clean way from a headless Debian Jessien -netinstall to a Openbox -base-desktop. Includes minimum of apps, utils and firmware, plus instructions in this readme.

Note: The current Debian testing release, Stretch, seems to work well for me. For a dev-box, I recommend trying this on Stretch instead of Jessie. You get new shiny packages like nvim and rust!

This script was based on John Ruff's #! forum posts. Thanks and Good luck!

How?

I. Install base debian

• Install Debian Jessie from an image, with only 'standard system utilities'. No need to install desktop.
• You set the root password, user also.
• Once install finishes and restarts, login as root.

II. Download and checksum

Use the md5-checksum to ensure the downloaded script is untampered - for a security-check, and peace of mind. On every commit of jes.bang -script into a git-repo, a md5 checksum is calculated of the file 'jes.bang'.

• In terminal, logged as root (Go as root: $ su)
• Install checksum-util, download jesbang and verify the download:

apt-get install md5sum
wget -nc https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csmr/jesbang/master/jes.bang
md5sum jes.bang

• Compare to the checksum-file 'md5sum.txt' on Github

III. Run script

• If checksums on github and your terminal are identical, enable running the script, and run it:

chmod +x jes.bang
./jes.bang

Once the script finishes, restart (~20 minutes depending on cpu/network). The login-manager and the desktop are run - login as user, right-click on desktop for app-menu.

Options

--ignore - Do NOT stop on any errors found

--bugcheck - Install listbugs to check for known issues

--interactive - Stop and wait for user after each install piece

• for example, to ignore errors: $ ./jes.bang --ignore

Whats it do?

This script

• installs packages listed in a bash-array with apt-get install (see 'jes.bang')
• writes logs
• tests if install succeeded (only tests couple of packages)
• sets up sudo to use obsolete gksu (pkexec todo - its preferred in debian jessie)
• maybe in future transitions from non-free repo (unrar, mp3 encoder)
• maybe in future transitions to a Obviux -distro

The packages

• see 'jes.bang' -file for package lists in desktop_pack & desktop_pack_norecs.

The desktop

• Is Openbox + tint2 on Xorg & lightdm -manager.
• right click on empty desktop for app menu
• Vim for editor
• 4 virtual desktops - switch with scroll-up/down on desktop or alt+ctrl+arrow (r/l)
• terminator for terminal: tabs, themes, split panes, jump between pane ctrl+tab

Things to try after install:

• Play with terminator window

  Right click desktop, select 'Terminal emulator' Right click on top bar, select 'Un/decorate'

  • Hide terminator title-bar Right click inside terminator window

  Preferences > Profile > Show title bar -uncheck

• Firewall on, run gufw in terminal (iptables) $ sudo gufw (asks pass)

• Set network connections

  • Right-click on connections-icon next to clock, select "Edit connections"

• scan the open ports: $ nmap --allports localhost

• Create a ssh-key $ ssh-keygen (set passphrase)

• browse packages: Right-click on empty desktop, from ob-menu select:

  Debian > Applications > System > Package Management > Synaptic

• customize your Openbox-desktop settings $ iceweasel https://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/

• Read about neovim and linux news $ iceweasel http://neovim.io http://lwn.net

• install a night-sky planetarium -app: $ sudo apt install stellarium and run: $ stellarium &

Edit Rust/Ruby/Groovy -code in vim:

• Move to next desktop ctrl + alt + right-arrow

• Open terminal:

  Right click desktop > terminal emulator

  Open vim $ vim parser.ru logic.rb server.groovy :tabnew :b2 :Vex (select with arrow keys + enter) :qa

• Get rust - check rustup.rs: $ www-browser https://rustup.rs ('q' quits)

Help with this

• You can help by testing it. It should work now(TM).
• It should get better package-install tests cover.
• The desktop apps need some mentions in readme.
• It could be made lighter.