These dotfiles can be managed using gnu stow, a free, portable, lightweight symlink farm manager.

Checkout this repo in your home directory. Various dotfiles can be installed by executing the following in that directory:

 ~/dotfiles:> stow terminator bash git bcompare scripts

note: stow can only create a symlink if a config file does not already exist. if a default file was created upon program installation you must delete it first before you can install a new one with stow. this does not apply to directories, only files.

comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)

Thanks to martinprobson.