Yesterday I spent the day working on a script to install my usual working environment on top of a clean install of the (soon to be) current version of Debian. This is a fork of my Ubuntu scripts that I use to set up all my machines.
It’s very much a work in progress, and I wouldn’t recommend running this on a machine you care about, but I thought it was worth documenting in case it’s of use to anyone else.
Pre-installation
Before you run this script ensure that you have sudo installed and that your user is in the group. To do this run the following as root (replacing <your username> with your username)
apt install -y sudo
sudo usermod -aG sudo <your username>You will also need some extra repositories enabled. My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye/updates main contribInstallation
Download the script, make it executable, and run it:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/teknostatik/debian/master/deploy_debian.sh
chmod 755 deploy_debian.sh
./deploy_debian.shI’ve tested this on top of a full desktop install and a command line only installation as well. My goal is to get a working i3 environment, so the latter is probably what I’m going to focus on going forward. I did get a few snaps working on my test machine, but that was non-trivial, and I’m still not confident enough about that aspect yet. I also suspect most people who choose Debian do not care for snaps anyway.