blog setup: chapter 2 Configuration

Streamline your Linux development environment by syncing configuration files and installing essential tools. Learn how to set up wget, plocate for fast file searching, and the Fish shell with its powerful tab-completion features for a more productive command-line experience.

Linux Server Configuration

These are the steps taken to sync configuration files down to the system being worked on.

In reality, these steps are not necessary - but it is nice to have the same tooling in all systems that are being developed.

  1. Install wget using apt:

    apt install wget

  2. Use wget to pull configuration files from public repo:

    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vlouvet/configs/master/.nanorc

  3. Install nice-to-have packages from apt:

    apt install plocate fish
    • The plocate utility provides a search index to be used when looking for files on the command line.
    • fish is a great shell, useful for its tab-completion and autofill functionality.

  4. Set the default terminal shell to fish:

    chsh /usr/bin/fish

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