Personal WSL2 Ubuntu Setup

This is my setup for local Ubuntu 22.04 using WSL2 where I store most of my repositories under /projects/. This will be updated time to time.

Necessary Tools

NVM

Taken from here. curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash

ZSH

1. sudo apt install zsh
2. sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
3. git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k
4. nano ~/.zshrc
5. Replace everything with this here. The content might be different after running powerlevel10k configuration wizard.
6. Restart terminal.

Personal p10k config: yyyy3122212223221y1

PPA from Ondřej Surý for handling multiple PHP versions

1. sudo apt install software-properties-common && sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php && sudo apt update
2. sudo apt-get install php8.3 php8.3-fpm && sudo apt-get install php8.3-mysql php8.3-mbstring php8.3-xml php8.3-gd php8.3-curl php8.3-zip php8.3-intl

Switching PHP version: sudo update-alternatives --config php

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Taken from here.

1. sudo apt install mysql-server
2. sudo systemctl start mysql.service
3. sudo mysql_secure_installation

MySQL No Root Password error?

1. sudo mysql
2. Inside MySQL, replace password with something else: ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';

Python

Ubuntu 22.04 ship with Python 3 pre-installed, so we only need to configure further. Further instructions here.

1. sudo apt install -y python3-pip
2. sudo apt install -y build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev
3. (optional) install python packages by replacing package_name: pip3 install package_name

Ruby

sudo apt install ruby-full

Make

sudo apt install make

Composer

Replace the installer checksum (SHA-384) from here.

1. php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
2. php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'dac665fdc30fdd8ec78b38b9800061b4150413ff2e3b6f88543c636f7cd84f6db9189d43a81e5503cda447da73c7e5b6') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
3. php composer-setup.php
4. php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

Global Laravel Create

1. composer global require laravel/installer
2. Now you can create new project using laravel new project-name.

Redis Server

1. sudo apt-get install lsb-release curl gpg
2. curl -fsSL https://packages.redis.io/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg
3. sudo chmod 644 /usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg
4. echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.redis.io/deb $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/redis.list
5. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install redis
6. systemctl status redis.service to check its status, it should be in green "active (running)".
7. After installing supervisor, create supervisord config file for redis-server at /etc/supervisor/conf.d. Refer redis-supervisor.conf.

Supervisor

1. sudo apt update && sudo apt install supervisor
2. sudo systemctl status supervisor to check its status, it should be in green "active (running)".
3. After creating new config file for a program, run these sudo supervisorctl reread && sudo supervisorctl update to retrieve latest config files & insert them to process group.
4. sudo supervisorctl start "redis:*"
5. Have redis: ERROR (spawn error) error? Ensure ownership of /var/log/redis/redis.log is correct: sudo ls -l /var/log/redis/redis.log. If not 'redis' user, run this sudo chown redis:redis /var/log/redis/redis.log.