seed

Ansible seed playbook for installing an XFCE desktop environment and a baseline of software and dotfiles.

The script is intended to be run on an Ubuntu/Xubuntu system (tested on bionic) and has been tried out on Ansible 2.9.

1. Install git and clone this repo:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install -y git
   
   git clone https://github.com/petergardfjall/seed
   cd seed/

2. Install ansible:

   sudo apt install python3-pip -y
   pip3 install --user ansible

3. Run either of (you may append additional ansible command-line flags):

   export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin
   
   /seed.sh --desktop
   /seed.sh --laptop

All tasks are tagged according to category (like Desktop) and role (for example media) and tool (for example vlc). By specifying tags, one can choose to run tasks for a certain category, role or tool:

./seed.sh --laptop --tags go,gopls

To see available tags run:

ansible-playbook --list-tags seed.yaml`