README.md

dotfiles

This is a set of dotfiles for Linux, intended to be used with GNU stow.

Terminology

From the stow docs:

A package is a related collection of files and directories that you wish to administer as a unit — e.g., Perl or Emacs — and that needs to be installed in a particular directory structure — e.g., with bin, lib, and man subdirectories.

Each of the directories in this repo acts as a stow package.

Dependencies

You can install the system dependencies these dotfiles depend on using Nix Flakes. See here to install the Nix package manager, and run the following command to enable Flakes:

echo 'experimental-features = nix-command flakes' >> /etc/nix/nix.conf

For simplicity, a script is included that will properly install the dependencies. Use:

./dependencies.sh

This simply runs the nix profile install command with --impure and the proper target within the Flake.

To uninstall the dependencies, you can use:

./dependencies.sh remove

Installing packages

To install specific packages, use:

stow -v <packages...>

For simplicity, a script is included that installs all packages. Use:

./packages.sh

This simply loops over the directories and runs stow -v on each one.

To uninstall a specific package, use:

stow -Dv <packages...>

Or, to uninstall all packages using the provided script:

./packages.sh remove