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Tool to automate Linux reinstall? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by staircase@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I frequently reinstall Linux. Is there a tool to say what to install and configure that I can just run once after OS install? Things like

Install neovim, signal, steam
Configure firefox, desktop environment

I'm using this for just me, on my personal machine.

I don't anticipate it's possible between different distros, so assume I'm reinstalling the same distro.

EDIT: thanks for replies. I'm mostly seeing Ansible and NixOS. I'll start looking at those.

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[–] arran4@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

There is a lot but I think you will find a lot of them more enterprise focused rather than consumer. For apps installed to home, why aren't you preserving your /home partition? For system apps, could you create an image? (Although it should be basically a one liner?) There is a lot of missing detail, why are you reinstalling, what distribution(s)?

It's probably better to write a script in a repo that downloads and installs everything..

Then for configuration files create a dotfiles repo. I use chezmoi but there are a bunch of solutions for this.