scripts-ubuntu-common 📜

Store shell scripts for installing dependencies on Ubuntu.

Rules:

• These scripts will be able to run on Docker 🐳 servers or containers, so they need to be automatable;

  • Try to keep the scripts working only when calling them, that is, avoiding interaction with the user;

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  • For apt install scripts for example, the -y flag is usually added to the end so that yes is answered automatically whenever it is requested, e.g.:

  apt install reino-das-coxinhas -y # ok
  apt install good-script           # wrong, add '-y'

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  • For scripts that accept arguments, assign values by default, e.g.:

  ARG1=${1}
  
  if [ -z ${ARG1} ] # checks if 'ARG1' is empty
  then
    ARG1="some-default-value"   # add a default value
  fi

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  • It may be necessary to add the DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive environment variable to the script, e.g.:

  DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt install keyboard-configuration -y # ok

• Do not add the sudo keyword at the beginning of the script, it is the responsibility of the command that calls it with that keyword, e.g.:

sudo apt install reino-das-coxinhas -y # wrong, remove 'sudo'
sudo apt install good-script           # wrong, remove 'sudo, add '-y'
apt install g++ -y                     # ok

• Pay attention to the permissions of the added files. Put chown if necessary, e.g.:

CURRENT_USER=$(who | awk 'NR==1{print $1}')

chown "${CURRENT_USER}":"${CURRENT_USER}" "${DIR}" -R

• Remove temporary files downloaded with wget and similar during script execution, e.g.:

wget https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/releases/download/1.2.1/cpptools-linux.vsix
code --install-extension cpptools-linux.vsix
rm cpptools-linux.vsix # << don't forget