WSL Setup, if applicable

If using WSL2,

• Install a Nerd Font (Ubuntu Mono preferred) in window terminal and set it as the default font
• Set windows terminal theme to catppuccin macchiato

Just to get ready, we will go ahead these packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install fish git neofetch powerline terminfo wget zsh 

if using a CUDA enabled GPU, configure cuda

sudo apt-key del 7fa2af80
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/wsl-ubuntu/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libxcursor-dev libxinerama1 cuda gettext

check that cuda installed properly by running which nvidia-smi

if we run into ldconfig: /usr/lib/wsl/lib/libcuda.so.1 is not a symbolic link, handle that by using the following snippet from this related issue.

cd /usr/lib/wsl/lib
# backup
sudo mv libcuda.so.1 libcuda.so.1.backup
sudo mv libcuda.so libcuda.so.backup
# create symlink manually
sudo ln -s libcuda.so.1.1 libcuda.so.1
sudo ln -s libcuda.so.1 libcuda.so
# update cache
sudo ldconfig
cd ~

either way, if on Debian or Ubuntu, make sure to run

sudo apt-get install cuda-toolkit

if on ubuntu run

sudo apt-get install nvidia-gds

then restart the wsl environment

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Load dotfiles

Either clone the repo with

git clone https://github.com/Taylor-Alex-Raine/dotfiles.git .

or by downloading your relevant files to their home locations.

Configure xterm-256color-italic terminal

Ensure that terminfo is installed with which terminfo, then run

tic xterm-256color-italic.terminfo

to compile the xterminal.

Install TMUX and TPM

Run the commands below to install tmux and tpm

sudo apt-get install tmux
git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm

then if tmux is already running, run tmux source ~/.tmux.conf to reload the config.

Run TPM's install script with prefix + I (here I have the prefix as the default CTRL + B).

Configure fish

Fish checks its config on launch, so no source command is needed. We can set it as the default shell with the below.

sudo echo $(which fish) | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
sudo chsh -s $(which fish)

it may be necessary to log out and back in at this point, depending on your system

note that current my config.fish auto opens tmux if it is not already running

Configure powerline

Run the following to configure powerline to use the config from ~/.config/powerline/config.json

powerline-config tmux setup
powerline-daemon --replace

VIM

Option 1: nvim install without powerline

this will with catppuccin/vim instead of using powerline for nvim

sudo apt-get install curl neovim nodejs 
sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'

then open nvim and run :PlugInstall. nvim is very likely to produce errors before the install command is issued.

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Option 2: vim with powerline

 sudo apt-get install curl neovim nodejs npm 

We will mostly follow Zoey Greer's vim install script

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get remove vim vim-runtime gvim 
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install python3-dev clang make man curl git-lfs 7zip libgtk-3-dev vim-gtk3 liblua5.4-dev lua5.4 tig 

then run

mkdir ~/programs
cd ~/programs
git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
cd vim

configure with the following options

./configure --enable-multibyte                                      \
            --enable-rubyinterp                                     \
            --disable-pythoninterp                                  \
            --enable-python3interp                                  \
            --with-python3-config-dir=(python3-config --configdir)  \
            --enable-perlinterp                                     \
            --enable-luainterp                                      \
            --disable-mzschemeinterp                                \
            --enable-tclinterp                                      \
            --with-tclsh=/usr/bin/tclsh                             \
            --with-features=huge                                    \
            --prefix=/usr/                                          \
            --enable-cscope                                         \
            --enable-autoservername='yes'                           \
            --disable-gui                                           \
            --enable-gui=gtk3

then compile with

cd /src
make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=~/programs/vim/runtime
sudo make install
cd ~

vim-plug install

curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

enable with :PlugInstall in vim