Ask HN: How do you install developer tools on a fresh system? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you install developer tools on a fresh system?

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Post by ams6110 » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 3:06 PM UTC

thomasreggi wrote: post #5

I'm very interested in a way to containerize (runing them within a vm) these tools that way nothing needs to be installed, and could go easily from machine to machine, without polluting the filesystem.

Honestly I think this is overkill. For a dev machine, I install all my tools locally that way "yum update" or equivalent keeps everything up to date easily.

Use VMs or containers for local simulation of your deployment targets.

Re: Ask HN: How do you install developer tools on a fresh system?

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Post by ChilledHands » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 3:06 PM UTC

pricechild wrote: post #9

I maintain Ansible playbooks for my own systems should the worst happen.

Just to make sure I understand, your play book isn't for a VM but a host os?

Re: Ask HN: How do you install developer tools on a fresh system?

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Post by sakopov » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 3:12 PM UTC

cyptus wrote: post #8

cyptus wrote: post #6

https://chocolatey.org/

windows 10 comes with packet manager, so you can just execute the following statements on an fresh windows install (powershell): http://pastebin.com/HmiqDDbi

Interesting. This looks like NuGet on steroids.

Re: Ask HN: How do you install developer tools on a fresh system?

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 3:18 PM UTC

I just install stuff when I run into something I need but don't have. Keeps my system slim.

Re: Ask HN: How do you install developer tools on a fresh system?

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Post by collyw » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 3:21 PM UTC

bryanlarsen wrote: post #13

Question: why are you doing a fresh install? If you install everything through your package manager, you don't need a fresh install to clean things up. My operating system has lived through several different machine upgrades. I just do a `cp -a` to copy the files from one hard drive to another, set up the bootloader and go.

Theoretically that may be the case, but its far from reality.