Pop!_OS Ansible Bootstrapper

This is an ansible playbook used to bootstrap a Pop!_OS install from a clean install, installing and configuring most components that are common on all systems.

This is designed for Pop!_OS 21.04.

What it does

• Configures the desktop background, dock, screen lock, keybinds, etc
• Configures flathub as the default flatpak remote
• Installs:
  • Google Chrome
  • VS Code (+ extensions and configuration)
  • Jabba (+ OpenJDK 1.17.0)
  • Rustlang (via rustup)
  • NodeJS (+ npm and yarn)
  • Recoll
  • NVIM (+ configuration and vimplug)
  • Docker
  • Oh-my-ZSH (+ configuration)
  • Spotify
  • Discord
  • Zotero
  • Flameshot (+ keybind to PRTSCRN)
  • SpeedCrunch
  • Tmux
  • Misc apt packages (tree, bpytop, htop, iperf3, etc)
  • Git
  • SSH
  • GParted
  • Native development tools (build-essential, clang, g++, gdb, multilib)

What it doesn't do

• Configure hostname, SSH, and Git
• Install applications that are difficult to automate (e.g. MATLAB, Insync)

Getting started

From a fresh Pop!_OS 21.04 install (user: jaci)

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install ansible
$ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.txt
$ ansible-playbook playbook.yml --ask-become-pass

Note some components may fail on the first run due to a /var/lib/dpkg/lock issue, likely due to a system task like Pop!_Shop running updates in the background. Let it finish and then rerun the playbook.