Dotfiles Install Guide

These are my current dotfile configurations that I use for my work with Linux, and sometimes windows. If you would like to just use my Neovim config, here is a guide for that.

Git Configuration

Assuming you are starting from a brand new system you will need to configure git for this guide.

Git Configuration Guide

SSH Configuration

I prefer to use SSH to handle my git transactions, its more secure since I use 2FA, and I don’t want to keep inputting my password every time.

SSH Configuration Guide

Dotfiles Configuration

We can now install the dotfiles. Right now this is Linux and MacOS specific, until I setup a proper windows support.

Requirements (Linux & MacOS)

You will need the following before installing.

GNU Stow

Check with:

stow -v

If not then install with your package manager.

Zsh

You can find instructions here.

If not then install with your package manager. Don’t change your default shell yet. If you have a .zshrc file already, move or remove it for now.

Rust

You probably don’t have this installed but its easy as running this command:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Then install the following crates:

cargo install sccache --locked
cargo install starship --locked
cargo install ripgrep
cargo install eza
cargo install zoxide
cargo install fd-find
cargo install bat
cargo install bacon --locked

Note: You may also use cargo binstall to download compiled binaries you can find more info here

FZF

You can find it here.

TMUX

You can find it here.

Also run this command to install the plugin manager:

git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm

After you install the dotfiles, run tmux and press prefix + I In my case prefix is bound to C-b

Neovim

You can find it here.

A NerdFont

You can use any font here. I use ProFont

Install Dotfiles

Now that you have installed the pre-requisites, you may run the following command to put the dotfiles repo in ~/.dotfiles

git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:RestedWicked/.dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

CD into it and run:

./server.sh

This script will automatically symlink all the folders into their correct positions. If you have folders in those positions the symlink will fail, you will have to move or remove those folders first, and then retry the command.

Now you can set Zsh as your default shell.

chsh -s $(which zsh) 
 
# if you use fedora run this instead
sudo lchsh $USER

Install Oh-my-zsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
 
# Install Plugins
 
# Autosuggestions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
 
# Syntax Highlighting
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
 
# Fast Syntax Highlighting
git clone https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/fast-syntax-highlighting
 

If installing oh-my-zsh replaces the .zshrc you can just move the .zshrc.pre-oh-my-zsh back to .zshrc

Extras

These are optional.

Install Node Version Manager

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

Install Node

nvm install 18.14.0