First create a folder for your gits:

mkdir gits
cd gits
apt-get install git
git clone [email protected]:hjc1710/desktop

Now run the step script:

sudo bash setup.sh

This script installs salt and symlinks some folders, so it needs to be run as root. Or do some permission changes and run it.

Now run salt (you might want to configure first though!).

salt-call state.highstate

To configure your install before running state.highstate, two things should be done.

A number of items in the core package are configured via Salt Pillar data. You should sweep through these Pillar states and configure them to match your system. The number one Pillar package to look at would be apps.

Pillar data will be located at /srv/pillar after running setup.sh.

To configure your installable apps, you merely need to edit the top.sls file in /srv/salt. Merely add the paths to the states you want, and remove what you don't!

For example, if you wanted to install ack-grep instead of silverseacher-ag, all you would do is first remove this line

include:
  ...
  - devutils.silversearcher # <============ Remove me

And replace it with this line:

include:
  ...
  - devutils.ack-grep # <============ Add me

And now ack-grep will be installed instead of silversearcher!