Gaudi

Gaudi is a bash command line tool that helps installing/setting-up machines by defining lists of software packages to be installed.

The main motivation behind gaudi is:

• Have a clean reproducible way to set up a machine from scratch by installing all the software/packaged needed
• A way to share machine setups between users with templates

Note: Gaudi has been designed to serve both Linux and OSX but have been optimised and tested on OSX

Installation

gaudi is installed by running the following commands in your terminal. You can install this via the command-line with either curl or wget, whichever is installed on your machine.

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/g-udi/gaudi/master/install.sh)"

You can also manually clone the repo and then run the setup.sh

gaudi has been also designed mainly to work with bash so running the setup with bash rather than . or sh is advised

Behind the Scenes

What gaudi does behind the scenes is executing a group of bash scripts which are: