DSC - DataSquad Laptop Setup (for MacBook)

Laptop is a script to set up a macOS laptop for data science tools for DSC staff & Data Squad.

• 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.

Requirements

This script supports:

• macOS Big Sur (11.2) - Apple Silicon

To make backward compatable we need to add some logic to test for architecture.

NOTE: Homebrew installs to /opt/homebrew on Apple Silicon rather than /usr/local so HOMEBREW_PREFIX probably needs to be dependant on the architecture. see: thoughtbot#589

• macOS Mavericks (10.9)
• macOS Yosemite (10.10)
• macOS El Capitan (10.11)
• macOS Sierra (10.12)
• macOS High Sierra (10.13)
• macOS Mojave (10.14)
• macOS Catalina (10.15)

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

To Install

Download the script:

curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UCLA-DataSquad/laptop/master/mac

Review the script (avoid running scripts you haven't read!):

less mac

Execute the downloaded script:

sh mac 2>&1 | tee ~/laptop.log

You'll need to use your laptop password. If it's the first time running this script, it will trigger an installation of Xcode and you will need to hit return.

Optionally, review the log:

less ~/laptop.log

Optionally, install thoughtbot/dotfiles.

Debugging

Your last Laptop run will be saved to ~/laptop.log. Read through it to see if you can debug the issue yourself. If not, copy the lines where the script failed into a new GitHub Issue for us. Or, attach the whole log file as an attachment.

What it sets up

macOS tools:

• Homebrew for managing operating system libraries.

Unix tools:

• Universal Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
• Git for version control
• OpenSSL for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
• Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
• Watchman for watching for filesystem events
• [Zsh] as your shell
• rlwrap readline wrapper
• pandoc markup converter
• tree lists contents of directory in a tree like structure
• jq JSON parser
• wget network downloader
• rclone cloud storage data synch
• awscli amazon command line
• docker cli for containers

• GitHub CLI for interacting with the GitHub API

Image tools:

• [ImageMagick] for cropping and resizing images

Languages:

• [R] - Base r installed via homebrew
• [Anaconda Python] - Python distribution for scientific computing, this is installed using the bash installer

Databases:

• Postgres for storing relational data
• Redis for storing key-value data

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

See the wiki for more customization examples.

Contributing

1. Edit the mac file.
2. Document in the README.md file.
3. Follow shell style guidelines by using ShellCheck and Syntastic.

brew install shellcheck

4. Check out the GitHub Actions tab to make sure the build runs without error.

Thank you, contributors!

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License

Laptop is © 2011-2020 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.