Atuin on a Raspberry Pi

Atuin installation is straightforward, but the TUI does not appear when the up arrow is pressed on a Raspberry Pi (if your username is pi … and isn’t it always?).

The problem is the username, as described here, together with a solution.

So, in brief:

• install atuin using the bash script as described in the documentation
• set up syncing, either by creating a new username/password, or by using the key from another installation, then verifying via a web browser (can be done on a headless machine)
• edit .bashrc to include export ATUIN_HISTORY_AUTHOR=pi-user immediately before the atuin entries (which probably start with . "$HOME/.atuin/bin/env")
• source .bashrc and the TUI should work correctly 😄
• finally (optional), edit the atuin configuration file (nano ~/.config/atuin/config.toml) to allow syncing of dotfiles … which will work after sourcing .bashrc again

There’s a useful atuin cheatsheet available online, but it omits the alias and variables syncing