Linux Shell and Config Setup

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An interactive provisioning script for deploying a fully configured Linux environment. Optimized for Debian and Kali Linux. Designed to deploy a unified Linux environment by centralizing config files and scripts across multiple machines using GNU Stow and Git. It's dead simple.

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Execution

wget -qO shellSetup.sh https://shell.ivantsov.tech && bash shellSetup.sh

curl -fsSL https://shell.ivantsov.tech | bash

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System Bootstrap (shellSetup.sh)

Purpose: This script automates the initial environment configuration on a completely blank machine. It is designed to run exactly once per system install. Further changes to configs need to be managed via git/github

• Installs Git and configures your global Git identity.
• Clones this repository to ~/linuxploitacious.
• Launches an interactive menu to install base packages (Zsh, Tmux, Fastfetch, etc.).
• Deploys configurations via GNU Stow.
• Sets up Oh My Zsh and Oh My Posh theming.

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GNU Stow: Core Mechanics

We use GNU Stow as a stateless symlink manager. It does not run a background daemon, and it does not maintain a database of what it has deployed. It reads the current state of a "package" directory and mirrors that structure to a target directory.

The Directory Math (Tree Folding)

When you deploy a package, Stow ignores the name of the package folder itself. It treats the inside of the package folder as the equivalent of your target directory (which is $HOME in this setup).

After you clone, navigate to the repo directory. You will see a list of folders for each app containing the configs as if they were in $HOME already. If we just run stow . without providing a target, it will duplicate everything here into $HOME.

Therefore, we must declare which exact folders (apps) we're going to symlink into $HOME.

Run stow -t ~ zsh nvim scripts (exclude / inlcude any folders you want to symlink):

• zsh/.zshrc deploys to ~/.zshrc
• nvim/.config/nvim/init.lua deploys to ~/.config/nvim/init.lua
• scripts/.local/bin/sys-update.sh deploys to ~/.local/bin/sys-update.sh

Repository Architecture

Rule: Do not place deployable files in the root of this repository. The root is strictly for management scripts and documentation. All payload files must exist inside a designated package folder.

~/linuxploitacious/
├── README.md                 # This documentation
├── shellSetup.sh             # Master bootstrap script (Not stowed)
├── zsh/                      # Package: Zsh configs
│   └── .zshrc                # Deploys -> ~/.zshrc
├── scripts/                  # Package: Global scripts
│   └── .local/               
│       └── bin/
│           └── ultimate.sh   # Deploys -> ~/.local/bin/ultimate.sh
└── btop/                     # Package: Btop configs
    └── .config/
        └── btop/
            └── btop.conf     # Deploys -> ~/.config/btop/btop.conf

dockerHost

This folder is unrelated to the project, I just needed somewhere to put it. It's a docker compose file for my docker infrastructure. You can either igonre it or delete it as it serves no purpose here.