diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
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-#!/bin/sh
-# setup script for codespaces inspired by dcreager/dotfiles
-set -e
-
-if [ -z "$USER" ]; then
-    USER=$(id -un)
-fi
-
-echo >&2 "====================================================================="
-echo >&2 " Setting up codespaces environment"
-echo >&2 " USER        $USER"
-echo >&2 " HOME        $HOME"
-
-# Make passwordless sudo work
-export SUDO_ASKPASS=/bin/true
-
-/bin/bash ./install_tmux.sh
-/bin/bash ./install_fzf.sh
-/bin/bash ./install_nvim.sh
-/bin/bash ./install_fish.sh
diff --git a/install_fish.sh b/install_fish.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-echo >&2 "====================================================================="
-echo >&2 " >> installing fish"
-
-# TODO: autodetect debian11/12
-# echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/shells:/fish:/release:/3/Debian_12/ /' | \
-echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/shells:/fish:/release:/3/Debian_11/ /' | \
-  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/shells:fish:release:3.list
-
-# TODO: autodetect debian11/12
-# curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/shells:fish:release:3/Debian_12/Release.key | \
-curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/shells:fish:release:3/Debian_11/Release.key | \
-  gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/shells_fish_release_3.gpg > /dev/null
-
-sudo apt update
-sudo apt install -y fish
-
-echo >&2 " >>> changing shell to fish"
-sudo chsh -s /usr/bin/fish $USER
-
-echo >&2 " >>> link config.fish from dotfiles"
-mkdir -p ~/.config/fish
-ln -s -f ~/dotfiles/.config/fish/config.fish ~/.config/fish/config.fish
-
-echo >&2 " >>> echo $0"
diff --git a/install_fzf.sh b/install_fzf.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-FZF_VERSION=0.40.0
-
-# Install fzf
-echo >&2 "====================================================================="
-echo >&2 " >> installing fzf"
-echo >&2 " >>> downloading"
-curl -LO https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/releases/download/${FZF_VERSION}/fzf-${FZF_VERSION}-linux_amd64.tar.gz
-
-echo >&2 " >>> extracting"
-tar xfv fzf-${FZF_VERSION}-linux_amd64.tar.gz
-
-echo >&2 " >>> moving fzf to /bin"
-sudo mv fzf /bin
diff --git a/install_nvim.sh b/install_nvim.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-NVIM_VERSION=0.9.0
-
-# Install neovim
-echo >&2 "====================================================================="
-echo >&2 " >> installing nvim"
-echo >&2 " >>> installing libfuse2"
-sudo apt-get install -y libfuse2
-echo >&2 " >>> downloading nvim"
-# TODO: remove test urls and use NVIM_VERSION variable
-# curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim.appimage
-curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/v${NVIM_VERSION}/nvim.appimage
-curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/v0.9.0/nvim.appimage
-
-echo >&2 " >>> changing nvim.appimage mode bits (u+x)"
-chmod u+x nvim.appimage
-
-echo >&2 " >>> extracting from ./nvim.appimage"
-./nvim.appimage --appimage-extract
-
-echo >&2 " >>> extracted images version"
-echo >&2 $(./squashfs-root/AppRun --version)
-
-echo >&2 " >>> moving squashfs-root"
-sudo mv squashfs-root /
-
-echo >&2 " >>> exposing nvim globally"
-# sudo ln -s /squashfs-root/AppRun /usr/bin/nvim
-sudo ln -s /squashfs-root/AppRun /bin/nvim
-
-echo >&2 " >>> linking nvim config files"
-mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim
-ln -s -f ~/dotfiles/.config/nvim/init.vim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
-ln -s -f ~/dotfiles/.config/nvim/plugins.lua ~/.config/nvim/plugins.lua
-
-# TODO: move vimwiki setup from makefile to here
diff --git a/install_python.fish b/install_python.fish
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-# TODO: turn this into an actual script
-# TODO: rename to install_python.fish
-
-# curl https://pyenv.run | bash
-# set -Ux PYENV_ROOT $HOME/.pyenv
-# fish_add_path $PYENV_ROOT/bin
-
-# now add:
-# pyenv init - | source
-# to:
-# ~/.config/fish/config.fish
-
-# install suggested build environment:
-# sudo apt update; sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev \
-# libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev curl \
-# libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev
diff --git a/install_tmux.sh b/install_tmux.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-TMUX_VERSION=3.3a
-
-echo >&2 "====================================================================="
-echo >&2 " >> installing tmux"
-echo >&2 " >>> install tmux dependencies"
-sudo apt install -y libevent-dev
-echo >&2 " >>> downloading file"
-curl -LO https://github.com/tmux/tmux/releases/download/${TMUX_VERSION}/tmux-${TMUX_VERSION}.tar.gz
-echo >&2 " >>> decompressing"
-tar -zxf tmux-${TMUX_VERSION}.tar.gz
-echo >&2 " >>> changing into tmux src"
-cd tmux-${TMUX_VERSION}/
-echo >&2 " >>> running .configure"
-./configure
-echo >&2 " >>> listing file in current dir"
-echo >&2 $(ls -la)
-
-echo >&2 " >>> running .configure"
-make && sudo make install
-
-echo >&2 " >>> linking tmux config from dotfiles"
-mkdir -p ~/.config/tmux
-ln -s -f ~/dotfiles/.tmux.conf ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf