Things to install from the web

1. Sign into GitHub

3. Conda + Poetry

mkdir -p ~/installs
cd ~/installs
wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh   # follow prompts

# Sometimes you also need to accept the channel ToS:
conda tos accept --override-channels --channel https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main
conda tos accept --override-channels --channel https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r

4. Dropbox

Install from the official Linux page. If the machine has a separate data disk, install Dropbox into /data.

Optionals

O1. Starship prompt

  • Install a NerdFont such as FiraCode; move the files into ~/.fonts/.
  • Follow the install instructions at starship.rs.

O2. Brave browser

Download from brave.com and set it as the default browser. This one is based on Chromium but without a lot of the bloat.

O3. Kitty terminal

Terminal with tabs and fast.

# Install from https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/binary/
sudo ln -s ~/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitty  /usr/local/bin/kitty
sudo ln -s ~/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitten /usr/local/bin/kitten

O4. 1Password

Download the .deb from 1password.com, then:

sudo apt install ./1password-latest.deb

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