⚠️ This project although convenient, it's too unreliable. Please use Nixpkgs instead.

OS bootstrap-system/dotfiles-manager framework that SuperB

💡 About

SuperB Bootstrap is a SuperB OS bootstrap-system/dotfiles-manager framework that can be installed with just one command on a new *NIX system installation.

✨ Features

• Super portable, work on almost any *NIX operating system, you don't need to install anything before the installation process
  • Don't know anything about git? Dont't worry, SBB dotfiles can be host via Nextcloud, Google drive or Dropbox...
• Super organized file structure to config and share
• Super easy to setup and install:
  • You can even install your dotfiles with just one command from a new *NIX system installation
• Super flexible with one config, you can bootstrap cross-platform. Supported package managers are:
  • Main packages managers:
    • APK
    • APT
    • DNF
    • EOPKG
    • Mports
    • OpenBSD PKG
    • Pacman
    • Portage
    • PKG IN
    • PKG NG
    • Slack PKG
    • Termux PKG
    • URPMI
    • XBPS
    • YUM
    • Zypper
  • Additional packages managers:
    • AUR
    • Flatpak
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • MAS
    • Nix
    • SBO
    • Snap
  • Language packages managers:
    • Basher
    • BPKG
    • NPM
    • PIP
    • Yarn

🚀 Setup

First generate using this template, or if you want, you can setup manually:

🔧 Manually

If you manage your dotfiles with git, run the following commands:

mkdir -p ~/dotfiles/home ~/dotfiles/root ~/dotfiles/extra

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NNBnh/superb-bootstrap-template/main/packageslist --create-dirs --output ~/dotfiles/packageslist
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NNBnh/superb-bootstrap-template/main/setup --create-dirs --output ~/dotfiles/setup

cd ~/dotfiles

git submodule add https://github.com/NNBnh/superb-bootstrap.git ./extra/sbb
git submodule add https://github.com/NNBnh/bsymlink.git ./extra/bsymlink

if not, run the following commands:

mkdir -p ~/dotfiles/home ~/dotfiles/root ~/dotfiles/extra

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NNBnh/superb-bootstrap-template/main/packageslist --create-dirs --output ~/dotfiles/packageslist
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NNBnh/superb-bootstrap-template/main/setup --create-dirs --output ~/dotfiles/setup

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NNBnh/superb-bootstrap/master/sbb --create-dirs --output ~/dotfiles/extra/sbb/sbb
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NNBnh/bsymlink/main/bin/bsymlink --create-dirs --output ~/dotfiles/extra/bsymlink/bin/bsymlink

Note: if you don't use Git, you have to manually update SBB and Bsymlink by running the last two commands.

📁 File structure

The file structure will looks like this:

dotfiles/
├─ home/              # Symlink to home (add anything like .config/ or .local/ that you what to bootstrap here)
├─ root/              # Symlink to root (same with this directory but it will be symlink to '/' directory)
├─ extra/             # Other files that you want to backup or store but don't want to symlink
│  ├─ sbb/...         # This contain the script file to bootstrap
│  └─ bsymlink/...    # This contain the symlink tool
├─ packageslist       # Packages list
└─ setup              # Setup script

⚙️ Customization

Next, customizing your your dotfiles:

• Move everything you want to backup in home/ and root/
• Add packages to packageslist (see example)
• Config the setup scripts (see example)

Remember to make setup executable:

chmod +x ~/dotfiles/setup

Finally store or upload your dotfiles to a safe place.

📥 Installation

To install your dotfiles, put the dotfiles to the desired location then execute setup file.

For example if you store your dotfiles on Github, first download it:

git clone https://github.com/yourname/dotfiles.git

cd to dotfiles:

cd dotfiles

Then execute the setup file:

./setup

You can install your dotfiles with just one command:

git clone https://github.com/yourname/dotfiles.git && ./dotfiles/setup

💌 Credits

Special thanks to:

• Xfzv for many bug reports and suggestions
• Obyyx for fixing paru's flags
• LoricAndre for the great design suggestion and make Paru upgrade AUR packages on bootstrap
• Simon Weiss for most of bugs fix, improvement to 1.7.3, and more...
• Package managers supported:
  • Xfzv for Portage and Zypper supported
  • Kraileth for PKG NG supported
  • Miko for OpenBSD PKG and PKG IN supported
  • Justin for Slack PKG supported
  • Laffer1 for Mports supported
  • Andrea Velásquez for MacPorts and MAS supported
  • LoricAndre for PIP and NPM supported
• get-pip from Python Packaging Authority for the get-pip.py script
• Carbon from @carbon_app to create the banner

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