mvdobrinin's Mac OS X 14.3 macOS Sonoma Setup Guide

Install Basic Software

Homebrew

Install Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
/opt/homebrew/bin/brew doctor
echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

Install common applications via Homebrew

Yes, you can run this all as one brew install command followed by the list of applications, but some require additional input or could have other issues installing, so I run them separately to give an easy way to continue if needed

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts

brew install iterm2
brew install git
brew install nmap
brew install jenv
brew install pyenv
brew install wget
brew install zsh-completions
brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting

Install applications via Homebrew Cask

brew install font-roboto font-roboto-mono font-source-code-pro
brew install --cask font-jetbrains-mono

DB tools for Postgres

brew install libpq
echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

Oh My ZSH!

• Install a fancy zsh framework for funtimes

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

• Make zsh the default shell for the current user with chsh -s $(which zsh)
• Setup changes to the .zshrc file to config for our usage

Additional Command Line Installs

Set up VSCode

Go to Code - Settings... - Turn on Settings Sync... Sign in with Github

Install JDKs

Download JDKs of choice. For example through IJ.

jenv add /Users/dobrim1/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/corretto-17.0.10/Contents/Home

Install NodeJS and switcher tool

We use nvm tool to be able to install and support multiple NodeJS versions.

Set Up Applications

• Login to Chrome to download and setup extensions
• Login to Bitwarden

Gitting on with Git

• Xcode and git are installed, right?
• If so, running xcode-select --install will get you the prompts for the Xcode Command Line Tools
• Set some defaults up.

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global push.default current
git config --global init.defaultBranch "master"
git config --global color.ui true

Also we an set up VSCode as an excellent merge tool.

git config --global --edit

And add the following

[merge]
        tool = vscode
[mergetool "vscode"]
        cmd = code --new-window --wait $MERGED
[diff]
        tool = vscode
[difftool "vscode"]
        cmd = code --new-window --wait --diff $LOCAL $REMOTE                                                    

• Check that keychain helper is installed with git credential-osxkeychain Note: if you installed git via HomeBrew, this is done for you. Skip to the git config step below.
• If not installed, set that sucker up. curl -s -O http://github-media-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/osx/git-credential-osxkeychain
• Modify permissions on the helper so it can operate chmod u+x git-credential-osxkeychain
• Move the helper so Git can access it. This command will ask you for your (computer user) password. As you're typing your password, it won't show the characters, press return when done typing it. sudo mv git-credential-osxkeychain /usr/local/git/bin
• Tell git to use the helper git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain
• Check again to see if the helper is successfully installed git credential-osxkeychain
• Create a new SSH key for Github

cd ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 8192 -C "[email protected]"

• Confirm that ssh-agent is enabled eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
• Add SSH key to ssh-agent ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
• Copy SSH key to clipboard pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
• Login to Github
• Add SSH key to Github
• Confirm that you're good to go ssh -T [email protected]