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Yet another installation of my personal notes for setting up a new (or cleanly installed) MacOS computer. Not too many changes since Monterey. I will try really hard to reproduce the steps in an order that make then easiest to execute.
Note that none of the steps below require an Apple ID - I held off on signing in until the very end just to see if it was possible.
bootstrapping from another system
I do copy some things over from my previous computer, but it's pretty minimal. Here's the command to gather up what I need to transfer.
tar --exclude '.gnupg/S.*' -cf dotfiles.tar .aws .gitconfig .gnupg .netrc .pypirc .saml2aws .ssh
It's also handy to know all of the projects I'm working on:
cd ~/src for dname in */.git; do git -C $(dirname $dname) remote -v; done > remotes.txt
system update
The first thing I did this time around was to perform a system software update to get all of that waiting out of the way.
Developer tools
Also takes a while. This can be done from the command line:
xcode-select --install
system settings
The new iOS-style System Settings takes a bit of getting used to.
turn off spelling autocorrect
Search for "spelling" --> Keyboard --> Text tab --> unselect "Correct spelling automatically" and others
unmap Control + left,right
I use Control plus the left and right arrow keys to move between windows in emacs and tmux. Disable the default mapping to mission control:
System Settings --> Keyboard Shortcuts pane --> Keyboard Shortcuts button --> uncheck mission control: move left/right a space
Turn on FileVault
System Settings --> Security & privacy --> FileVault
I used a recovery key option rather than iCloud for my work machine, iCloud for personal
homebrew
Still a one-liner, now bash rather than ruby:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" brew doctor
Homebrew is installed to /opt/local
on an M1 Mac. This required
updating my PATH configuration. I added the following to my login
profile:
if [[ -d /opt/homebrew ]]; then eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)" fi
The new location required a number of changes to various login steps configuring homebrew-installed components.
CLI applications
Many packages are installed later with additional elaboration or in as dependencies for other applications; here are some more or less standalone packages that I routinely install up front.
brew install git && \ brew install wget && \ brew install autojump && \ brew install gcc && \ brew install graphviz && \ brew install latex2rtf && \ brew install mcfly && \ brew install pandoc && \ brew install pngpaste && \ brew install tmux && \ brew install tree && \ brew install fd && \ brew install xsv && \ brew install fzf && \ brew install saml2aws && \ brew install jq && \ brew install duckdb && \ brew install fswatch && \ brew install node && \ brew install htop
desktop applications
Homebrew installs desktop apps too! (the syntax has changed a bit)
for pkg in sizeup dash google-chrome mactex iterm2; do brew install --cask $pkg; done
Some of the above (eg, sizeup, dropbox, dash) require licenses and credentials that must be installed interactively.
iTerm2
Install using homebrew above. Update a few settings.
Preferences –> Profiles –> Keys and do these things:
- select "Left/right option key acts as": +Esc
- + –> Keyboard shortcut "OPT+<left arrow>": Send Escape sequence "b"
- + –> Keyboard shortcut "OPT+<right arrow>": Send Escape sequence "f"
(may have to delete or replace an existing mapping)
Default appearance:
- Preferences –> Profiles –> Colors –> Color Presets –> Light Background
- Preferences –> Profiles –> Text –> Change Font –> 14 point
Install shell integration:
curl -L https://iterm2.com/shell_integration/install_shell_integration.sh | bash
- Install python runtime by selecting "Scripts" –> "Manage" –> "Install Python Runtime".
- Enable the Python API under "Preferences" –> "General" –> "Magic"
zsh
zsh is the default shell on MacOS.
Install my dotfiles.
cd ~ git clone git@github.com:nhoffman/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles/mac/install.py
python
Ventura ships with Python 3.9.6 as /usr/bin/python3
with no
python
executable (or maybe it's installed with xcode tools - I forgot to check). That's nice, but I avoid using the system python for the most part.
pyvenv
My current method for managing python interpreters is to use pyenv. See https://realpython.com/intro-to-pyenv/
brew install zlib brew install pyenv brew install pyenv-virtualenv
Install pyenv-update plugin:
git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-update.git $(pyenv root)/plugins/pyenv-update
added dotfiles/mac/zsh/pyenv.plugin.zsh
if [[ -d "$HOME/.pyenv" ]]; then # echo "using pyenv" export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv" export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH" eval "$(pyenv init --path)" fi
Install the most recent versions of 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10 and set 3.10 as the default.
pyenv install $(pyenv install -l | grep '^ 3.8' | tail -n1) pyenv install $(pyenv install -l | grep '^ 3.9' | tail -n1) pyenv install $(pyenv install -l | grep '^ 3.10' | tail -n1) pyenv install $(pyenv install -l | grep '^ 3.11' | tail -n1) pyenv global $(pyenv install -l | grep '^ 3.11' | tail -n1) python3 -m pip install -U pip wheel
pyenv seems not to install a python
entrypoint. I'll see how it goes with
python3
only.
pipx
I'm trying out pipx for installing standalone python-language commands outside of project-level virtual environments.
pipx recommends installation from homebrew, so that's what we'll go with:
brew install pipx
The installation instructions include running pipx ensurepath
, but
this appears not to be necessary if ~/.local/bin
is already added to
your PATH.
Install some globally useful packages:
pipx install awscli pipx install pgcli
emacs
Since I moved off of Intel macs, I have been using the Homebrew emacs-plus project, which seems great so far.
brew install libressl brew install aspell brew install gpg brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus brew install emacs-plus
Edit: after emacs 39.1 came out, I updated with:
brew uninstall emacs-plus brew install emacs-plus@29 --with-imagemagick --with-native-comp
Check out my .emacs.d and run setup scripts.
cd ~ git clone git@github.com:nhoffman/emacs-config.git .emacs.d
Run setup scripts:
cd ~/.emacs.d bin/python-setup.sh
The main inconvenience was having to adapt my startup script to juggle M1 Mac, x86 Mac, and linux. Here's the relevant portion.
if [[ $(uname) == 'Darwin' ]]; then if [[ $(uname -m) == 'arm64' ]]; then # assume we are using emacs-plus EMACS=/opt/homebrew/bin/emacs EMACS_BIN=/opt/homebrew/bin/emacsclient else EMACS=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs EMACS_BIN=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin fi alias emacs="$EMACS" # provides emacsclient export PATH=$EMACS_BIN:$PATH else EMACS=$(readlink -f emacs) fi
R
Installed with brew install --cask r
.
Some packages that I know I'll need:
R --slave << EOF packages <- c("lattice", "RSQLite", "latticeExtra", "argparse", "data.table", "tidyverse") install.packages(packages, repos="http://cran.fhcrc.org/", dependencies=TRUE, clean=TRUE, Ncpus=4) EOF
Wow, this takes a long time!
Also:
brew install --cask rstudio
postgresql
Install from https://postgresapp.com/downloads.html
This installs multiple versions of postgres. My zsh profiile includes the path to the CLI for the latest version, eg:
PATH="/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/bin:$PATH"
Docker desktop
Use Homebrew.
brew install --cask docker
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