This is a little writeup on how to get a very useful terminal setup on any Debian based Linux. Example of my setup below:

My custom .bashrc file, give me a customized prompt (current directory and size as well as previous commands exit status). In addition to this it provides a whack of aliases to make commands simpler to type, as well as some pseudo functions. Download from pastebin HERE

Installing my custom bashrc

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apt-fast/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-fast apt-file nano lynx more less tmux byobu

Open bashrc from pastebin above and save to ~/.bashrc Open a terminal and try it out!

Useful apt-get aliases

• install : sudo apt-fast install
• addrepo : sudo add-apt-repository
• searchIn : apt-file search

Useful shorthand aliases

• murder : ‘kill -9’
• alert : Useful for things like “make; alert” and when complete will pop up an on screen notification.
• hist : Grep through bash history, very useful.

Useful pseudo programs

• extract : Automatically appends the needed options to tar for you.
• netinfo : shows network information for your system
• downforme : Check to see if a site is down for everyone or just me
• cp_pro : copy with progress bar
• mkdir_go : make a directory and enter into it
• bu : Back up a file by appending UNIXTIME.backup

Solarized dark256 color scheme

• Get the color scheme for tmux HERE just copy 256 pallet to ~/.tmux.conf
• Vim plugins and highlighters HERE
• Edit ~./vimrc and add ‘set number’ and ‘set relativenumber’
• Solarizer ‘ls’ dircolors HERE
• Gnome-term solerized pallet HERE. I had to select the background to be slightly darker than the tmux status bar manually in gnome-term as I did not like the blue/green default.