Setup LMDE 6

Setup LMDE 6#

LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for “Linux Mint Debian Edition”. LMDE 6 is based on Debian 12 Bookworm.

  1. Update as suggested by the helper application and installed what is suggested (for example codex)

  2. Setup synchronization with Firefox account

  3. Install few Debian packages with apt, something like:

sudo apt install \
  clang gfortran cmake \
  python3-pip \
  libpng-dev libfftw3-dev libfftw3-mpi-dev \
  libhdf5-dev libopenmpi-dev \
  libopenblas-dev \
  curl ack meld pandoc \
  fish zsh \
  nextcloud-desktop nautilus-nextcloud \
  git emacs

  1. Setup cloud data (for example https://sdrive.cnrs.fr which uses Nextcloud)

  2. Install editors, in particular VSCode + setup synchronization with Github account

  3. Setup Bash aliases

  4. Install pipx and few applications available on PyPI

  5. Install Miniforge

  6. Install UV and Pixi

  7. Create a ssh key and copy the public key on Github, Gitlab, foss.heptapod.net

  8. Install Rust tools

  9. Install Docker

  10. Install Mojo/Magic