This script has been replaced by ptinopedila (The birds of Mercury)

Anergos

Description

The name Anergos comes from the discontinued Linux distro Antergos and the Greek word "unemployed" (άνεργος). The scripts in this repository serve two purposes.

1. I want to have an easy way to install all the packages and configurations I need for my workflow, quickly and in a reproducible way.
2. Provide a blueprint for anyone who wants to do something similar, without having to write everthing from scratch.

Anergos - The script

This script is used to install packages and clone my dotfiles from my github repo, as well as some hardware-specific drivers. The packages have to be in a .csv file that has a specific name, according to the distro you are running it on. My .csv files are in the programs folder.

The name of the files have to follow these schemes in order to be valid: <distro-ID>/<name-of-the-list>.csv or <distro-ID>.<name-of-the-list>.csv or <name-of-the-list>.csv

• <distro-ID> is the ID set in /etc/os-release.

  Distro	<distro-ID>	description
  For Archlinux	arch	Unmaintained for over a year 2020
  For Manjaro	manjaro	Unmaintained since 2019
  For Ubuntu	ubuntu	Not supported right now
  For Fedora	fedora	Updated in September 2021

• <name-of-the-list> is the name you want to give to the list. This is also the only part of the file's name that needs to be passed as an argument to anergos.sh. For example, lets say you have two lists of packages for Archlinux: arch.gnome.csv and arch.gaming.csv

  bash anergos.sh gnome gaming

  This command will parse all packages in arch.gnome.csv, arch.gaming.csv and install all of them using yay (yay -S --noconfirm --needed). yay-bin will be installed automatically if yay is not installed already.

• .csv is the only valid file type. The files need to contain 3 columns:

  Name in repo	Purpose (description)	Repository
  package	This is a package	A
  # This is a comment.	This line is ignored	A stands for AUR

  Any deviation from this scheme may result in falure.

The .csv files can be placed in the same directory as anergos.sh, in a folder named programs/ in the same directory as anergos.sh or in a remote repository. The url for that remote repository is set in the progs_repo variable in the script. I've been using Archlinux since mid 2019, so this script is mostly tested on Archlinux. Therefore, program lists for other distros found in this repository may be out of date, or completely useless. You should use your own list(s) anyway.

The dotfiles repository is passed as an argument to the function clone_dotfiles. They are cloned to a temporary directory and then copied to your user's HOME directory. Any conflicting files will be overwritten. I should also note that I'm using a bare git repository to store my dotfiles to make it easier to manage and back them up. In order to track and commit changes follow this turorial to find out more.

After cloning my dotfiles I apply some extra configurations. Some of them are specific to my hardware. You don't have to remove those functions if you want to test the functionality of the script. There are built-in checks to see if those functions are needed.

If you want to test this script in a virtual machine, install Archlinux using arch_install.sh, restart, login to your user and run :

bash anergos.sh i3 # for most my packages
# or
bash anergos.sh i3testing # to install less packages and see the results faster.
# Don't use sudo.

If you want to use this script with your own configs and packages, create your own .csv file, replace my dotfiles repo with your own and you're done. Or even better, fork this repository to add more of your configurations so I can see how other people configure their systems.

To do

• Update package lists for other distros like Arch, Ubuntu and Manjaro.
• agetty_set : Should I just use a Display manager?

Arch_install

Warning: I can't recommend you use this script because it involves partitioning and formatting a drive to instal Arch on. I have added some failsafes, but I have only tested it a few times in Virtual machines. It works, but you never know.

This script shouldn't be considered a tutorial on how to install Archlinux. Please read the official installation guide.

This is a script I have created to quickly install Archlinux. Right now I've made it work only for UEFI installations, using systemd-boot. The user is asked for a hostname, username and user password. Un-comment the following line to also set a root password:

# root_password="$(get_pass root)"

The user is also asked to enable multilib or not.

If you have mounted the two required partitions (/mnt and /mnt/boot), the script doesn't prompt you to format any drive/partition. However, you must make sure that the new / partition is formated, before you initiate the script.

If you haven't mounted those partitions, you will be prompted to choose a drive to partition and format. ALL DATA WILL BE LOST on that drive, so avoid using it this way if you have multiple partitions on that drive and/or data you haven't backed up. For you're own safety, you could unplug all other drives from your system except the one you want to install Archlinux on. Make sure you have a backup of any usefull files on that drive.

After that, the script installs base,base-devel,linux and a few more packages I consider needed, using pacstrap. Then using arch-chroot, it runs the function core_arch_install. I am not going to explain how that works, since you should already know how to install Arch. The contents of that function should be familiar to you.

One last note. In the first few lines I set 2 variables:

export timezone="Europe/Athens"
export lang="en_US.UTF-8"

You should changes those according to your region.

To do

• Add LUKS/LVM support.
• Prompt user to select timezone and lang instead of setting them as variables.
• Add systemd-boot entries for linux-lts/linux-zen if its installed.
• Add proper support for non-UEFI installations.