Aider Quick Start on Ubuntu

#!/bin/bash

set -e

echo "Updating package list..."
sudo apt-get update

echo "Installing Python 3, venv, and pip (if not already installed)..."
sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-venv python3-pip

echo "Creating a virtual environment for Aider..."
python3 -m venv ~/aider-venv

echo "Activating the virtual environment..."
source ~/aider-venv/bin/activate

echo "Upgrading pip inside the virtual environment..."
pip install --upgrade pip

echo "Installing the official aider installer inside the virtual environment..."
pip install aider-install

echo "Running the aider installer..."
aider-install

echo ""
echo "Installation complete! Check aider version:"
aider --version

echo ""
echo "Aider is ready to use inside this virtual environment."
echo "To activate it again later, run:"
echo "source ~/aider-venv/bin/activate"
echo "Then use 'aider' as needed."

# see https://aider.chat/docs/llms/deepseek.html
export DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="..."

# see https://aider.chat/docs/llms/openai.html
export OPENAI_API_KEY="..."

# see https://aider.chat/docs/llms/anthropic.html
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="..."

# see https://aider.chat/docs/llms/gemini.html
export GEMINI_API_KEY=".."

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# AIDER
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function aider-auth(){
    source ~/.aider-secrets
    echo "Starting aider $@"
    aider "$@"
    
    # forget the keys after aider exits
    export DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=""
    export OPENAI_API_KEY=""
    export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=""
    export GEMINI_API_KEY=""
}

function aider-watch (){
    aider-auth --cache-prompts --chat-language english  --watch-files "$@"
}

# see the best models available for now https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
export ANTHROPIC_SONNET_MODEL=anthropic/claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219

function aider-deepseek(){
    aider-watch --deepseek "$@"
}

function aider-r1(){
    aider-watch --model r1 "$@"
}

function aider-sonnet() {
    aider-watch --model ${ANTHROPIC_SONNET_MODEL} "$@"
}

function aider-gemini() {
#    aider-watch --model gemini-2.5-pro "$@"
    aider-watch --model gemini/gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 --weak-model gemini/gemini-2.5-flash --thinking-tokens 32k --reasoning-effort high "$@"
}

function aider-gpt5() {
#    aider-watch --model gemini-2.5-pro "$@"
    aider-watch --model gpt-5 --weak-model gpt-5-nano --reasoning-effort high "$@"
}

function aider-o3-mini-high() {
    aider-watch \
        --model o3-mini \
        --reasoning-effort high \
        "$@"
}

function aider-o3-mini-medium() {
    aider-watch \
        --model o3-mini \
        "$@"
}

function aider-architect() {
    aider-watch \
        --architect --model r1 \
        --editor-model ${ANTHROPIC_SONNET_MODEL} \
        "$@"
}


function aider-architect-browser () {
    aider-architect --browser
}

function aider-sonnet-browser () {
    aider-sonnet --browser
}

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# AIDER End
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