Setting up my Chromebook¶

Necessities¶

• External clipboard: sudo apt install xclip.
• File transfer: sudo apt install rsync.
• Shell: zsh and oh-my-zsh.

  sudo apt install zsh
  sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
  chsh -s $(which zsh)
  

• Containers
  • snapd did not work for me.
  • docker: the official instructions here gave me the following error.

    E: The repository 'https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu buster Release'
        does not have a Release file.
    N: Updating from such a repository cannot be done securely, and is
        therefore disabled by default.
    

Editors¶

• micro
  • Install using curl https://getmic.ro | zsh. Snap (snap install micro --classic) did not work for me.
  • Open micro, type Ctrl+E, and type set colorscheme simple.
  • Set default editor: open ~/.zshrc and edit the following lines to look like this. (Not sure if this works.)

    # Preferred editor for local and remote sessions
    if [[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ]]; then
      export EDITOR=nano
      export VISUAL=nano
    else
      export EDITOR=micro
      export VISUAL=micro
    fi
    

• Sublime Text 3
  • Install the following packages:
    • Package Control
    • Terminus with theme brackets-light
    • SendCode
    • GitSavvy
    • Markdown Editing
    • BracketHighlighter
    • simple_ConTeXt
    • UnicodeMath
    • UnicodeCompletion
    • Unicode Character Insert
    • A File Icon
    • Base16 Color Schemes with color-scheme base16-one-light
• Visual Studio Code. The Snap package did not work for me. Install from .deb worked.

Computation¶

• miniconda
• Jupyter Lab
• Julia: Extract to /opt/julia and update the $PATH in .zshrc.
• In julia, install the following (using Pkg; Pkg.add([pkgname])).
  • IJulia.jl
  • Plots.jl
  • DifferentialEquations.jl

Documentation¶

• ConTeXt
  • ConTeXt LMTK: tikz did not work for me, so sticking to ConTeXt Mark VI.
  • Document viewer: sudo apt install evince. This is required for simple_ConTeXt to automatically show the PDF after building.

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