Workstation Installation¶
Grab the latest offical Debian installer image. Note that, starting with
bookworm then non-free is included, thus the official installer image is
great. Put this on installation media. I really enjoy using Ventoy for this.
Post install I do the following, regardless of the whether the system is a SBC, a laptop, or a workstation.
Enable sudo¶
Switch user to root, update repositories, install sudo and add your
user to sudoers:
# Switch user to 'root'
su -
apt-get -qy update
apt-get -qy install sudo
usermod -aG sudo <username>
Log out and log back in for the group addition to take effect.
Increase console text size¶
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
Set timezone¶
See the timezones with:
sudo timedatectl list-timezones
Then switch to it by using one of the following, this is usually convenient as a post-install step as well, e.g. when traveling:
# Denmark
sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Copenhagen
# Korea / Seoul
sudo timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Seoul
# US West-coast
sudo timedatectl set-timezone US/Pacific
Update repositories and packages¶
Make sure repositories and installation is up-to-date:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Update Firmware¶
Update firmware:
sudo apt-get install isenkram
sudo isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
Then reboot for the firmware additons to take effect.
Toolbelt¶
For the rest we need some basic tools:
sudo apt-get install \
btop \
build-essential \
clang \
clangd \
curl \
gdb \
git \
htop \
meld \
meson \
pahole \
parallel \
pipx \
rsync \
screen \
stow \
valgrind \
vim
Setup pipx`:
pipx ensurepath
pipx completions
Install and setup the toolchain for the Rust language:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh