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

Post by ajford » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 8:30 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #12

I don't do fresh installs very often, but when I do, it's generally because I want it to be a genuine fresh install. As such, I don't install a tool until I need it. I find that tools I once thought I absolutely needed are not tools or libraries that I use anymore. I have three exceptions to this: Vim (my editor of choice), dotfiles (which I store in a git repository and put in place using stow, installed via a simpl…

Post by StillBored » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 8:45 PM UTC

  cat  /etc/yum.repos.d/local-repo.repo
  [local-repo]
  name=local-repo
  baseurl=http://xxxx
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=...
  EOF

  PACKAGES="codeigniter otherstuff"

  for PKG in $PACKAGES; do
   sudo yum install -y $PKG;
  done

Post by j_s » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 8:52 PM UTC

zihotki wrote: post #4

The question asks only about *nix systems, I assume, but it worth mentioning that there is a great tool for Windows too, just in case if someone needs it - https://chocolatey.org/

Post by jmiserez » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 8:58 PM UTC

desdiv wrote: post #37

jmfayard wrote: post #18

That's a very good reason to only install apps with a real package installer. On OSX, this is a no-brainer with brew[1] and brew cask[2] # On my old mac $ brew list $ brew cask list => then I save relevant parts for future references brew install npm brew install zsh brew cask install sublime-text brew cask install google-chrome brew cask install intellij-idea [1] http://brew.sh/ [2] https://caskroom.github.io/

>brew list Protip: "brew list" will list all installed packages, including dependencies, which you might not want. What you probably want is "brew leaves", where it lists all installed packages that are not dependencies of another installed package . This makes a difference in cases where a dependency is no longer needed in the latest version. On a related note, why does the majority of package managers make the comm…

Post by Symbiote » Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 9:01 PM UTC

collyw wrote: post #25

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.