Working Ubuntu

For what:

• use as consistent working environment on any machine
• use docker inside docker (DiD)
• if you are unable to use WSL, you can up all in Docker
• dockerconainers, bro

How to start

Fill envs

Create .env based on .env.example and you should change:

• USER_NAME - yor created username for system
• WORKING_DIRECTORY - your base system working path

Build image

Docker compose (the best way):

docker compose up -d

Docker run:

docker run -itd \
  --privileged \
  --cgroupns=host \
  --name ubuntu-dev-systemd \
  --volume /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro \
  --tmpfs /run \
  --tmpfs /run/lock \
  ubuntu-dev:latest \
  /sbin/init

Connect to image

docker exec -it -u <your_user> <container_name> /bin/zsh
# docker exec -it -u zeizel ubuntu-systemd /bin/zsh

External working directory

1. Set WORKING_DIRECTORY
2. In container go to /mnt

Troubleshooting

Image not pull automatically

You may need to install image manually

docker pull ubuntu:24.04

Brew (still broken)

Needs manual installation

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -kfsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
brew install gcc nvm
brew bundle --file=~/.config/Brewfile

Windows

Git bash

Because on win bash convert / paths to C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/, we might have some problems with it :/

Solve is:

1. just not using bash and go to powershell or cmd
2. use export MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1

TODO

• Need to create more comprehensive dots clone script (now it works only with stow-based configs)
• Fix brew installation (permission denied in build)