setup2

A bash script that sets up an Ubuntu machine for data science and software development.

Usage

Run as your normal user (not as root or with sudo; the script refuses to run as root). The script calls sudo itself when needed.

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lab1702/setup2/main/install.sh | bash

What it installs

Section	Packages
Build tools and C/C++/Fortran	build-essential, gcc, g++, gfortran, cmake, pkg-config
Python	python3, python3-pip, python3-venv, python3-dev
R	r-base, r-base-dev, r-cran-tidyverse
Go	golang
Rust	rustup (plus the stable toolchain)
Containers	docker.io, docker-buildx, docker-compose-v2
Git and GitHub	git, gh
General shell tools	wget, curl, gpg, unzip, ripgrep, fd-find, fzf, tree, dos2unix, starship, shellcheck
Web dev	nodejs, npm
Data	sqlite3, sqlite3-tools, jq, yq-go, duckdb (from DuckDB's installer, not apt)
Fonts	fonts-jetbrains-mono, fonts-jetbrains-mono-web, fonts-firacode, fonts-cascadia-code
Editors	vim, hx (Helix editor)
System	openssh-server, btop, nvtop, vulkan-tools
Media and 3D	ffmpeg, mpv, imagemagick, sox, blender, godot

What else it does

• Runs apt-get update and apt-get full-upgrade before installing. apt runs without prompts and keeps your existing config files when an upgrade ships new versions of them.

• The upgrade and install wait up to 10 minutes for the package lock if something else (like unattended-upgrades) holds it. apt-get update doesn't wait: if another update is running (common right after boot), the script stops, and you can run it again.

• Looks up the latest Go release at https://go.dev/VERSION?m=text and runs go env -w GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.X.Y+auto with it, on every run, so go downloads and uses that release by default (or a newer one if a go.mod asks for it). If the lookup fails, the script prints a warning and leaves Go on Ubuntu's version.

• Sets the npm global prefix to ~/.npm-global, on every run, replacing any other prefix in ~/.npmrc.

• Adds these lines to ~/.profile unless that setting is already there (commented-out lines don't count, and PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV set to any value counts and is kept):

  export PIP_REQUIRE_VIRTUALENV=1
  export PATH="$HOME/.npm-global/bin:$PATH"   # skipped if ~/.profile already adds ~/.npm-global/bin
  export PATH="$HOME/go/bin:$PATH"       # skipped if ~/.profile already adds ~/go/bin or $GOPATH/bin
  export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"   # skipped if ~/.profile already adds ~/.cargo/bin or sources ~/.cargo/env
  export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"   # skipped if ~/.profile already adds ~/.local/bin (Ubuntu's default does)

• Creates ~/.local/bin so Ubuntu's default ~/.profile puts it on your PATH.

• Installs the latest DuckDB CLI with DuckDB's own installer (curl https://install.duckdb.org | sh), which puts it in ~/.duckdb/cli and links ~/.local/bin/duckdb to it. If that fails, the script prints a warning and carries on.

• Adds eval "$(starship init bash)" to ~/.bashrc to turn on the starship prompt, unless ~/.bashrc already initializes starship.

• Warns you if a ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login would stop login shells from reading ~/.profile, either because it doesn't source ~/.profile or because it can't be read.

• Adds you to the docker group so you can run docker without sudo.

• Tells you at the end whether a reboot is needed.

The script is safe to run again: it skips ~/.profile and ~/.bashrc settings that already exist, leaves those files untouched when there is nothing to add, and updates the stable Rust toolchain to its latest release.

If ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc can't be read or written, the script leaves it as it is and prints a warning instead of stopping.

Notes

• Log out and back in after the first run for the docker group and the ~/.profile PATH changes to take effect.
• In SSH and console logins, Ubuntu's default ~/.profile runs ~/.bashrc before it reaches the PATH lines this script adds at the end, so commands in ~/.bashrc can't use programs from ~/.npm-global/bin, ~/go/bin or ~/.cargo/bin there. Desktop terminals aren't affected. To fix it, move those PATH lines above the part of ~/.profile that runs ~/.bashrc.
• fd-find installs its command as fdfind.
• Installing openssh-server starts SSH on port 22 with password logins allowed.

Requirements

Ubuntu 26.10 or later (amd64 or arm64). The script checks this and stops before changing anything on other systems.

License

MIT