Setting up a new Debian box

SettingUpDebian.md

• Add your user to the sudoers:

  su -c 'EDITOR=vi visudo'

• Install git, vim and a few other utilities and set vim as the default editor

  sudo apt-get install git vim-nox gdebi xclip python-gpgme
  sudo update-alternatives --config editor

• Install Chrome:

  cd ~/Downloads
  wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
  sudo gdebi google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
  

• Add ssh key to GitHub:

  • Generate key:

    ssh-keygen -t rsa

  • Copy contents of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to GitHub SSH Keys page:

    xclip -selection c -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• Install dotfiles.

• Install Dropbox:

  wget https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/ubuntu/dropbox_1.6.2_amd64.deb -O ~/Downloads/dropbox.deb
  sudo gdebi ~/Downloads/dropbox.deb
  

• Install other useful utilities and build tools:

  sudo apt-get install curl tree transmission dnsutils
  sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev autoconf pkg-config libssl-dev

Python

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev libzmq-dev gfortran \
                     libpng-dev libfreetype6-dev liblapack-dev libblas-dev
curl https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.0/Python-3.5.0.tar.xz | tar -xJ
cd Python-3.5.0
./configure
sudo make install
sudo pip3 install --upgrade jupyter numpy matplotlib scipy pandas \
                            scikit-learn seaborn requests beautifulsoup4 pytz

Bitcoin

• Install dependencies:

 sudo apt-get install libqt4-{gui,network}

• Download Bitcoin Core source.

• Install Bitcoin Core:

  sudo tar -xf ~/Downloads/bitcoin-0.9.2.1-linux.tar.gz -C /opt/
  sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bitcoin-0.9.2.1-linux
  sudo ln -s /opt/bitcoin-0.9.2.1-linux /opt/bitcoin
  sudo ln -s /opt/bitcoin/bin/64/* /usr/local/bin/

• Create a bitcoin.conf file:

  mkdir ~/.bitcoin
  echo "rpcuser=bitcoinrpc_${USER}" >> ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
  echo "rpcpassword=$(gpg --gen-random --armor 1 18)" >> ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
  echo "server=1" >> ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf