This is going to come handy for anybody who uses FreeBSD 11.x > as their development platform.
[] Make sure you add the user (in my case - the user is named as ram) to the group wheel
After installation you will see a console prompt as here.
Install Gnome 3 lite.
$ su
$ pkg install gnome3-lite
Then follow the instructions here
Include the i915kms for the UI to come up. There is no xorg.conf, the UI automatically loads.
kld_list="i915kms"
su
pkg install sudo
Add the user to sudoer file
If you come from linux land, then you will have used bash scripts.
Now that we have installed sudo, lets use them.
sudo pkg install bash
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash
shutdown -r now
The shell refreshed after doing a reboot.
The Make that comes in freebsd is Berkely Make
But you can install and setup an alias make in the .bashrc
pkg install gmake
This is pretty easy to install
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
rustup component add rustfmt-preview
It didn't pull some of the LIB like SODIUM when compiling.
So add this in your .bashrc file
export SODIUM_LIB_DIR=/usr/local/lib
This is pretty easy but will become difficult when opam 2.0 is released, since it needs a better version of OCaml to perform the switch. The OCaml packaged in FreeBSD is
4.02.3
sudo pkg install ocaml-opam
opam init
opam switch 4.06.1
This is pretty easy, but you won't be able to use the latest and greatest.
You can compile from source.
# Install node 9.3
pkg install node
curl -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash
This isn't as sweet as imagined pretty easy but will become difficult when opam 2.0 is released.
Install RVM
gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
Install Ruby
rvm install ruby
Install bundler
gem install bundler
Install native packages
sudo pkg install pkgconfig cmake libgit2
sudo pkg install git
FreeBSD has the latest packaged.
sudo pkg install postgresql10-server-10.3 postgresql10-client-10.3
pkg install asciinema
With modern editors picking up, this has been a major hassle for folks to move.
If you are used to vim then great. But there is another editor vi which works better than nano
This editor is great. I recently moved to this, and has been going strong.
:cdo %s/<search term>/<replace term>/gc
Instead of :grep, you can setup silversearch and with keymap <Leader> A
A separate project will have my vim cheatsheet.
The editor support is picky.
If you have the time the compile vscode` from source
Unfortunately this is commercial software. But supports well.
The following Package Control will come in handy.
We need to keep a tab on this project https://github.com/atom/xray
This is a nodejs project (C9 IDE)[https://github.com/c9/core]
Supports C/C++, Python, Rust - Yay. But not OCaml, JS, Ruby.
pkg install gnome-builder
This is a great editor, kept up to a core developer experience. But commercial.
There is no FreeBSD bundle. You can download the 64 bit Linux bundle. See the AsciiCast in installing SlickEdit.
tar -xvf sestandard*.tar.gz
cd sestandard*
sudo brandelf -t Linux vsinst
./vsinst
No vivaldi or brave
Chromium is heavy
sudo pkg install chromium
Firefox has the latest updated version and recommended.
sudo pkg install firefox
I find viewnior better than EyeOfGnome as it easy of memory.
sudo pkg install viewnior
Fileroller from Gnome is good. But xarchiver does the job for me.
pkg install xarchiver
Still run using the base WiFi during the setup. Need to add network-manager to manage the network.
Assumptions in the folder structure posted.
-
ramis my $HOME = /usr/home/ram -
ram/etcactually resides /etc -
ram/usr/local/etcresides in /usr/local/etc