README

A playbook to set up my PC/board/server of different Linux distributions (mainly Manjaro and Debian-based), ready for work in one click 🍻

Precondition

Install dependencies

# select China mirrors
sudo pacman-mirrors -i -c China -m rank
# update mirrors
sudo pacman -Syy
sudo pacman -S ansible

Install required modules

• community.general collection needed for git_config, pacman and npm modules in the desktop role. It is very likely that you already have this collection installed if ansible is installed.
• kewlfft.aur needed to manage packages from AUR, in the desktop role.

To install them from Ansible Galaxy, run ansible-galaxy collection install -r ./requirements.yaml, or ansible-galaxy collection install kewlfft.aur to just install kewlfft.aur.

turn off password timeout

add line Defaults passwd_timeout=0 to end of /etc/sudoers with sudo visudo /etc/sudoers

enable avahi and sshd if remote access with ssh

sudo systemctl enable --now avahi-daemon sshd

proxy

To run from localhost in China, install ShellCrash or other proxy client and start it.

sudo -i # switch to root user
export url='https://fastly.jsdelivr.net/gh/juewuy/ShellCrash@master' && wget -q --no-check-certificate -O /tmp/install.sh $url/install.sh  && bash /tmp/install.sh && source /etc/profile &> /dev/null

Usage

# deploy all tasks to all hosts in hosts
ansible-playbook site.yaml
# apply everything but disk mounting and general softwares installing tasks
ansible-playbook --skip-tags disk,softwares
# only apply to board group in hosts
ansible-playbook site.yaml --limit=board
# list matching hosts under current limits and do nothing else
ansible-playbook site.yaml --limit=board --list-hosts
# only apply disk mounting tasks to localhost via local connection (not ssh connection)
ansible-playbook site.yaml -l localhost --tags disk --connection=local

Postcondition

• yay --answerclean None --answerdiff None --answeredit None --save to set default answers for yay

• set proxy for onedrive. Edit systemd service of onedrive with sudo -e /usr/lib/systemd/user/onedrive.service and add following two lines under [Service] section:

  Environment="HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:7890"
  Environment="HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:7890"

Tips

To run a single task on managed nodes as check mode to try out what exactly will happen, use this:

ansible <nodes> -m <module> -a '{"opt1": "val1", "opt2": "val2"}' -C

Here is an example and its output:

# install nvidia-settings using module community.general.pacman under check mode
ansible localhost -m community.general.pacman -a '{"pkg":"nvidia-settings", "state":"present"}' -C

[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
localhost | CHANGED => {
    "changed": true,
    "msg": "Would have installed 5 packages",
    "packages": [
        "egl-wayland",
        "eglexternalplatform",
        "libxnvctrl",
        "nvidia-settings",
        "nvidia-utils"
    ]
}