For my daily work I rely on some tools being available on the machines that I use. They are usually not installed on HPCs, so I like to have a simple automated way to install them with ansible.

This sets up

• ripgrep (for searching in files),
• dust (for checking what takes up how much space / files),
• fd (find alternative with easier syntax),
• fzf (fuzzy finder, I mostly use it for the ctrl-r shortcut in bash to see what I have been doing recently),
• neovim

- hosts: all
  tasks:

  - name: "install ripgrep 14.1.1"
    unarchive:
      remote_src: yes
      src: "https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/14.1.1/ripgrep-14.1.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
      dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/"
      creates: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/rg"
      extra_opts:
      - --strip=1
      - --no-anchored
      - rg

  - name: "install dust 1.1.1"
    unarchive:
      remote_src: yes
      src: "https://github.com/bootandy/dust/releases/download/v1.1.1/dust-v1.1.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
      dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/"
      creates: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/dust"
      extra_opts:
      - --strip=1
      - --no-anchored
      - dust

  - name: "install fd 10.2.0"
    unarchive:
      remote_src: yes
      src: "https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/releases/download/v10.2.0/fd-v10.2.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
      dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/"
      creates: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/fd"
      extra_opts:
      - --strip=1
      - --no-anchored
      - fd

  - name: "install fzf 0.62.0"
    unarchive:
      remote_src: yes
      src: "https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/releases/download/v0.62.0/fzf-0.62.0-linux_amd64.tar.gz"
      dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/"
      creates: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/fzf"

  - name: "download gnu-stow (needed for dotfile management)"
    unarchive:
      remote_src: yes
      src: "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/stow/stow-2.4.1.tar.gz"
      dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/"
      creates: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/stow-2.4.1"

  - name: Configure and build gnu-stow
    shell: |
      ./configure --prefix=$HOME
      make
      make install
    args:
      chdir: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/stow-2.4.1"
      creates: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/stow"



  # neovim!!
  # this is using unsupported releases that do not require a new glibc
  - name: "install neovim 0.10.2"
    unarchive:
      remote_src: yes
      src: "https://github.com/neovim/neovim-releases/releases/download/v0.10.2/nvim-linux64.tar.gz"
      dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/"
      creates: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/nvim-linux64"

  - name: Create symlink for neovim
    file:
      src: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/nvim-linux64/bin/nvim"
      dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/bin/nvim"
      state: link


  - name: Ensure $HOME/bin is exported in .bashrc
    blockinfile:
      dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/.bashrc"
      block: |
        export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
      marker: '# {mark} ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK - PATH'
      insertafter: EOF
      create: yes 

  - name: Ensure fzf is set up in .bashrc
    blockinfile:
      dest: "{{ ansible_env.HOME }}/.bashrc"
      block: |
        eval "$(fzf --bash)"
      marker: '# {mark} ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK - FZF'
      insertafter: EOF
      create: yes