Installing basic dependencies

Package Name	Version
stow	any
neovim	latest
fish	latest
tmux	latest
git	latest
vim	any
bat	any
git-delta	any
fd-find	any
fzf	any
jq	any
ripgrep	any
tree-sitter	latest
lua-language-server	any
stylua	any
uv	any

Try to rely on system package managers first (brew, apt, dnf)

sudo dnf install --skip-unavailable stow neovim fish tmux git vim bat git-delta fd-find fzf jq ripgrep tree-sitter lua-language-server stylua uv

Note

• MacOS: Everything on this list can be found on homebrew.
• Fedora 43: neovim and tree-sitter not latest, lua-language-server and stylua unavailable.
  • stylua can be installed via uv tool install stylua
  • neovim and lua-language-server can be installed directly from Github releases

Direct Download

Example: installing nvim directly from Github

Assuming ~/.local/bin is already in $PATH

• Go to their Github releases page and see if they have prebuilt binaries.
• Copy link for your system.

mkdir -p ~/.local/packages/
cd ~/.local/packages/
wget https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/v0.12.1/nvim-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf nvim-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
stow nvim-linux-x86_64

Now which nvim should now point to ~/.local/bin/nvim

Note

stow packageName will symlink its contents to ../ by default, so make sure the directory structure is ~/.local/packages/packageName where packageName/ contains bin/ (and other things).

Then from .local/packages run stow packageName

To update:

cd ~/.local/packages
stow -D packageName
rm -rf packageName

Then follow the steps to install, from the beginning.

Link and unlink dotfiles

./install    # To link
./install -u # To unlink

Self-notes and references

• If in a minimal system, a decent vimrc has been provided for quick and dirty edits. Copy it from project root to $HOME/.vimrc.

• There is a list of tools in the install script that are "required" by these configs (they're assumed to exist in various scripts and don't guard against them not existing).

  Make sure those tools are installed.

• Add fish to /etc/shells and make a login shell:

  Assuming currently in bash:

  cat /etc/shells # to check if fish is already listed
  echo $(which fish) | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
  sudo chsh -s $(which fish) $(whoami)
  # sudo reboot now # optional

For later

• https://github.com/mhinz/vim-galore
  • also ref: https://github.com/mhinz/vim-galore/blob/master/static/minimal-vimrc.vim
• https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/