A BASH script to setup everything we need for a Cassandra development machine with Ubuntu Desktop.

setup-cassandra-dev.sh

#!/bin/bash

ROOT_UID=0 #Root has $UID 0
if [ $UID != $ROOT_UID ]
then
   echo -e "Insufficient privileges!"
   exit 1
fi

echo "Adding required PPAs..."
add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java
apt-get update

echo "Installing Java..."
echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 seen true | sudo debconf-set-selections
apt-get -y install oracle-java6-installer

echo "Installing Eclipse..."
eclipse_bin="#!/bin/sh
export ECLIPSE_HOME='/opt/eclipse'
\$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse \$*"
eclipse_desktop="[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse IDE
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true"
wget -P Downloads http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/eclipse/technology/epp/downloads/release/juno/SR2/eclipse-jee-juno-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
cd /opt
tar -zxf ~/Downloads/eclipse-jee-juno-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
touch /usr/bin/eclipse
chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
echo -e "$eclipse_bin" | tee /usr/bin/eclipse
echo -e "$eclipse_desktop" | tee /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
cd ~

echo "Installing LibYAML..."
wget -P Downloads http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz
tar -zxf Downloads/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz
cd yaml-0.1.4
./configure
make
make install
cd ~

echo "Installing python-dev..."
apt-get -y install python-dev

echo "Installing PyYAML..."
wget -P Downloads http://pyyaml.org/download/pyyaml/PyYAML-3.10.tar.gz
tar -zxf Downloads/PyYAML-3.10.tar.gz
cd PyYAML-3.10
python setup.py --with-libyaml install
cd ~

echo "Installing CCM..."
mkdir ccm
cd ccm
git init
git pull https://github.com/pcmanus/ccm.git
./setup.py install
cd ~

echo "Customizing Launcher..."
rm /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-amazon-default.desktop 
rm /usr/share/applications/UbuntuOneMusiconeubuntucom.desktop 
rm /usr/share/applications/ubuntuone-installer.desktop 

echo "Installation completed in $SECONDS seconds."

Here are the steps I need to take on a newly installed machine with Ubuntu Desktop:

sudo apt-get -y install git
git init
git pull https://gist.github.com/5380980.git
chmod +x setup-cassandra-dev.sh
sudo ./setup-cassandra-dev.sh
ccm create casdev2 -v git:cassandra-2.0.2

Nice Tony! I'll see about modding your script for dse.

Lorina