Ansible Desktop Provisioning:

• An Ansible Pull playbook for setting up Linux Mint Desktops.
• Based on Jay LaCroix' series of Ansible tutorials.
• Maybe it replaces the FreeGeek Chicago install script?

Questions:

• How many different versions of Linux Mint should I test this on?
  • Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE.
  • Linux Mint 20.01 XFCE.
• Should I test it on older versions of (x/k)Ubuntu? Older stuff sometimes comes in the door at Freegeek for support.
• Do we need the pepperflash player anymore, now that Flash has been retired?

Done:

• Updating, upgrading, removing useless packages, emptying the package cache.
• Installing a short list of basic packages.
• check if there's a webcam and install cheese.
• Make a initial Timeshift snapshot. Don't make another snapshot if there is already one snapshot.

To Do:

• If it's Xubuntu, install xubuntu-restricted-extras, remove abiword and gnumeric.
• check if it's an Apple machine and act accordingly.
• Show the old-school steam locomotive ascii animation after everything is done.
• Change the wallpaper to a FreeGeek Chicago wallpaper.
• If logged into oem, make changes to /etc/skell and /etc/profile so that when the user makes an account for themselves, changes by the install script aren't removed.

Notes:

You will need Git and Ansible to run this script. Here's how to get them:

sudo apt-get install git ansible

How to gather_facts on the target machine:

ansible localhost -m setup

How to run the script on the target machine;

sudo ansible-pull -U https://github.com/ahanson/ansible-provisioning.git