Unit #0-06

Learning Outcome

At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

• create a system setup repo

• use stow to symlink your dot files

Lesson

• so you have made all these great changes to your Linux system ...

  • now it has crashed, how are you going to set up everything again?

  • how long is it going to take?

• even GitHub has a standard set of scripts!

  • https://dotfiles.github.io/ 

  • https://github.com/github/scripts-to-rule-them-all

  • the stow app can also help

• create a GitHub repo called ".dotfiles" and place all the changes in a *.sh file

  • clone the repo down, run it and set your system back up

  • see my example below, then create your own

    • DO NOT COPY MINE!!

    • MAKE YOUR OWN THAT SETS UP WHAT YOU WANT!!

• create a new AWS EC2 instance and try it out

  • keep fixing it until it sets everything up like the one you currently have

  • as you add new settings to your system, ALWAYS add them to the repo!