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Ubuntu Tools

Various playbooks for Ubuntu machine management.

Supported Ubuntu distribution: 24.10 (oracular)

Prerequisites

• Ensure your Linux user is on sudoers with NOPASSWD. In Ubuntu it can be achieved by

  sudo groupadd admin
  sudo usermod -aG admin <your user name>
  sudo visudo

  and ensure the following entries are set:

  # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
  %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
  
  # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
  %sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

• Install Python and Ansible

  # install Python3, GitHub CLI and Git
  sudo apt install -y build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev python3-pip gh git
  
  # make sure Ansible is installed
  sudo apt install -y python3-ansible-runner
  
  # you cannot install it from pip3 anymore in user space
  # pip3 install ansible --user
  
  # ensure user Python apps can be run
  echo 'PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc

• Setup git and checkout this repo

  # setup your git user name and email
  git config --global user.name "Name Surname"
  git config --global user.email "your@email"
  
  # clone this repo
  mkidr -p ~/src && cd ~/src
  gh repo clone matihost/monorepo
  
  # setup pre-commit hooks in the checkout repo
  cd monorepo
  pre-commit install --install-hooks
  
  # go to this playbook location
  cd monorepo/ansible/system

Running

# install various software for Ubuntu desktop environment
make ubuntu-setup.yaml

# to update packages and autoremove, clean unused packages
make update.yaml

# cleanup unnecessary files, journal etc.
make clean.yaml

Post Setup

Onedrive

# to setup OAuth with Microsoft
onedrive

# then ensure OneDrive sync is running
systemctl enable --now  --user onedrive.service
journalctl --user -u onedrive --follow

Ubuntu upgrade instructions

• Check