MAC0472 - Agile Methods Lab - Week 1

2018-09-02

In this first week of development the goal was to prepare the environment to make contributions to the Linux kernel.

Warning: This is an old post with potentially outdated information. Read with caution.

To configure the development environment on Ubuntu18 I followed these steps:

1. Install Qemu:

   sudo apt-get install qemu qemu-kvm libvirt-bin
   

2. Get the latest ArchLinux version.

3. Create a virtual HD and boot ArchLinux following the steps on M.Hanny Sabbagh tutorial.

4. Install ArchLinux on a qemu virtual machine (on a qemu virtual machine (here I had a lot of difficulty and ended up getting a virtual machine with ArchLinux already installed from a friend). Even though, I’ll list here some things I did while trying to install ArchLinux.

   numa máquina virtual do qemu (aqui eu tive bastante dificuldade e acabei por pegar uma máquina virtual com o ArchLinux já instalado de um amigo). Mesmo assim vou listar aqui algumas coisas que eu fiz enquanto tentava instalar o ArchLinux.

   4.1 I followed some of the steps from this video tutorial and from this post though have not completed any of them.

   4.2 Some usefull commands to setup the virtual machine were:

    loadkeys br-abnt2.map.gz
   

   To configure the keyboard to brazilian ABNT2 standard.

    setfont iso02-12x22
   

   To change the shell font size and style so that text gets more readable.

5. Install and setup vim

   5.1

    sudo apt-get install vim 
   

   5.2 Clone and instala configuration from LAPPIS:

    git clone https://github.com/lappis-tools/lappis_vimrc.git
   

    cd lappis_vimrc/
   

    ./install.sh -i
   

   Edit ~/.vimrc at lines 78 e 79

    elseif match($XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, "GNOME") != -1
      set term=xterm-256color
   

   5.3 Find a funny vim tutorial to learn how to user this popular editor. vim-adventures (too bad the full version of it is paid)

6. Install and configure neomutt e-mail client

   6.1

    apt-get install neomutt
   

   6.2 Get useful configuration files from Rodrigo Siqueira

    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rodrigosiqueira/myConfigFiles/master/roles/neomutt/files/mutt/gmail
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rodrigosiqueira/myConfigFiles/master/roles/neomutt/files/mutt/mutt-colors-solarized-light-256.muttrc
   

   6.3 Copy the files gmail and mutt-colors-solarized-light-256.muttrc to the mutt configuration directory

    mv gmail ~/.mutt/
    mv mutt-colors-solarized-light-256.muttrc ~/.mutt/
   

   6.4 Edit mutt configuration file with the information from your e-mail account

    vim ~/.mutt/gmail 
   

   6.5 Edit the gmail configuration to enable IMAP access and to enable less secure apps to access your account.

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