A simple shell script to setup a Boxen instance on a SMM Machine.

If you are setting up a computer from scratch you will need the OS X command line tools.

Open Appllications > Utilities > Terminal.app. Type:

xcode-select --install

and select Install.

You should not need to install the full Xcode suite, just the command line tools.

Then run:

1. git clone https://github.com/scimusmn/boxen-setup.git
2. cd boxen-setup
3. ./boxen-setup.sh

The inital run can take anywhere between tens of minutes to multiple hours.

Resist the urge to cancel out of the process. It can cause errors while software is compiling.

1. Creates the Boxen directory
2. Sets the correct permissions
3. Clones our Boxen manifest
4. Runs Boxen for the first time, ignoring encryption requirement, with debug mode enabled.

We enable debug just because the first run takes a pretty long time (tens of minutes to hours) and it's helpful to be able to see that something's actually happening, during the setup.

If there are problems loop through these solutions:

1. Relaunch Terminal
2. Run boxen again.
3. Install the latest OS software updates.
4. Restart

Because Boxen is idempotent you can run it multiple times without causing problems. If something doesn't work, just keep running boxen and restarting until all errors disapear.

When you try to install the command line tools, you get an error saying:

Can't install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server.

You probably have already installed the command line tools.

When you first run the ./boxen-setup.sh script, you get an error talking about:

Can't bootstrap dependencies are outdated

This is a known issue on OS X Mavericks and the latest Xcode. To fix this, I've added this option to the default install script. ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future