Laptop is a script to set up an Ubuntu laptop for web development.

It can be run multiple times on the same machine safely. It installs, upgrades, or skips packages based on what is already installed on the machine.

For MacOS please use https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop

We support:

• Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

Older versions may work but aren't regularly tested. Bug reports for older versions are welcome.

Download, review, then execute the script:

curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codica2/ubuntu-laptop-script/master/linux
sh linux

Unix tools:

• WINE is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications
• Docker for containers
• Snapd canonical package manager
• Git for version control
• OpenSSL for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• Guake to replace a standart terminal
• Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
• Zsh as your shell and Oh-my-Zsh as brilliant addons

Heroku tools:

• Heroku Toolbelt and [Parity] for interacting with the Heroku API

GitHub tools:

• Hub for interacting with the GitHub API

Media tools:

• Simple Screen Recorder for screen recording
• ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images
• VLC media player
• Joxi for screen capture

Testing tools:

• Qt for headless JavaScript testing via Capybara Webkit
• Ngrok to expose a web server running on your local machine to the internet

Programming languages and configuration:

• Bundler for managing Ruby libraries
• Node.js and NPM, for running apps and installing JavaScript packages
• RVM for managing versions of Ruby
• Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code

Databases:

• Postgres for storing relational data
• Redis for caching

Editors:

• Sublime Text 3 for developing
• VS Code source code editor

It should take less than 15 minutes to install (depends on your machine).

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