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• Update README
• Remove hosts file use and references
• Update ansible.cfg (inventory and ssh_connection)

Remove powerline packages (powerline, fonts-powerline) and use tmux-plugin-manager with updated .tmux.conf file

Remove installation of xclip package in favor of xsel

Remove line source "/usr/share/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf" from .tmux.conf

Update the tmux screenshot in README

Probably will go with boostnote, because of the popularity and the github stars:

• boostnote
• ghostwriter
• Standard Notes
• Notes-up
• Quilter
• Zettlr
• Joplin - Great but uses its own directory and own format for storage
• Notable - Excellent but is still close-sourced
• Mark Text - Excellent but has no vim keybindings Domain up for sale

Install https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures to enable 3 finger swipe for various actions like workspace switch in macOS

Also install https://gitlab.com/cunidev/gestures

Distro repo often contains older versions of virtualbox. Using the Virtualbox official repo installs the latest version of virtualbox

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -cs) contrib"
sudo apt update && sudo apt install virtualbox

See https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/wiki/VTE-Configuration-Issue

Oracle tries to make sure you read and agree to their awesome license agreement before installing the package. This makes it difficult for automated installs. Sample code below needs to be integrated in the playbooks:

- block:
  - name: accept licence virtualbox ext pack
    debconf:
      name: "virtualbox-ext-pack"
      question: "virtualbox-ext-pack/license"
      value: "true"
      vtype: "select"

  - name: install virtualbox ext pack
    apt:
      name: "virtualbox-ext-pack"

  when: not virtual_machine_mode

Add these packages:

• yamllint
• python3-demjson

snap packages are a pain to load even on modern systems. Even a simple utility like calculator takes several seconds to load. Get rid of snap altogether.

https://lothiancaleysweb.co.uk/how-to-remove-snap-from-ubuntu
https://fazlearefin.blogspot.com/2020/02/remove-snap-snapd-from-ubuntu.html

Since this can break other things, removing snaps will be optional and can only be enabled by passing in an extra Ansible variable.

Get nerd fonts from https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts

Changing fonts will also require updating https://github.com/fazlearefin/ubuntu-dev-machine-setup/blob/master/roles/terminal_customizations/files/tilix.dconf

With Tilix desperately looking for maintainers, maybe it is time to replace it with Black Box

Tilix is based on GTK+ 3 while Black Box is based on GTK 4.

Journal files can take up disk space over time. This can be automatically removed by setting SystemMaxUse={{size}} in /etc/systemd/journald.conf.

Current space used by journals can be found by journalctl --disk-usage

Ref: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139513/how-to-clear-journalctl

The default editor is set to nano. Update this to point this to vim using the following:

sudo update-alternatives --config editor

and select vim

Sample playbook:

---
- hosts: all
  become: yes
  tasks:

    - name: Install required dependencies
      apt:
        name:
          - openjdk-11-jre
        state: present
        update_cache: yes

    - name: Download Burp Suite Community Edition
      get_url:
        url: https://portswigger.net/burp/releases/download?product=community&type=linux
        dest: /tmp/burpsuite_community_linux.sh
        mode: 0755

    - name: Install Burp Suite Community Edition
      command: /tmp/burpsuite_community_linux.sh --prefix=/opt/burpsuite

    - name: Create symbolic link for Burp Suite
      file:
        src: /opt/burpsuite/burpsuite_community.sh
        dest: /usr/local/bin/burpsuite
        state: link

    - name: Create Burp Suite desktop entry
      copy:
        content: |
          [Desktop Entry]
          Name=Burp Suite Community Edition
          Exec=/opt/burpsuite/burpsuite_community.sh
          Terminal=false
          Type=Application
          Categories=Development;
        dest: /usr/share/applications/burpsuite.desktop
        mode: 0644

Install foliate package in Ubuntu 24.04 for .epub, .mobi, .azw, and .azw3 file formats

Instead of cloning from the github repo, install the deb package zsh-antigen

Install https://github.com/emre/storm for managing ~/.ssh/config in style

This is a placeholder to install the following tools for cloud security and IaC:

• trivy
• prowler
• checkov
• trufflehog

Fresh Install Ubuntu 20.04.01

The command I use:
ansible-playbook main.yml -e "{ laptop_mode: False }" -e "{ virtual_machine_mode: False }" -e "local_username=$(id -un)" -K

Errors

TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [base : clear the existing /tmp dir (1/5)] ********************************
changed: [localhost]

TASK [base : copy systemd file (2/5)] ******************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [base : create dir /etc/systemd/system/tmp.mount.d (3/5)] *****************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [base : create tmp.mount custom options file (4/5)] ***********************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [base : start and enable tmp.mount on boot (5/5)] *************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Service is in unknown state", "status": {}}

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=5    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0```

Anything I should do first?

go directory in ~ is created with wrong ownership. Should be user:user instead of root:root

In vim setup, consider removing indentLine plugin as the repo has been archived.

Install https://github.com/wagoodman/dive

Very handy tool for inspecting docker images

(Currently crappy installation procedure: single standalone deb file install)

Provide an option during ansible playbook run to enable additional apparmor profiles

Manual installation is as follows:

sudo apt install apparmor-profiles apparmor-utils
sudo aa-enforce /etc/apparmor.d/*

# verify
sudo aa-status

Update the README as well

Janus vim distribution is not actively maintained anymore. Use https://github.com/amix/vimrc instead

(Update README.md)

Privacy mode will install tor packages including tor browser.
Helpful source: https://linuxconfig.org/install-tor-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux
Note: Find a way to install tor browser in silent mode, if possible.

Others include:

• Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit apt install mat2

Newer versions of SourceCodePro are available from https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/releases

This will let the user run docker commands without sudo

Install rclone Cloud-rsync utility in 20.04

https://github.com/rclone/rclone

apt install zsh-antigen instead of cloning the repo

Do not install any python 2 related packages in Ubuntu 20.04

Add a default .tmux.conf which, when tmux is invoked, will:

• show powerline statusbar
• configure mouse support

(Update README.md)

poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true

Switching to bash should give an exciting shell to work with. And that's where https://github.com/ohmybash/oh-my-bash comes in