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Ironically conda and Homebrew themselves need to be installed from a script off the internet
by DrKabab 7y ago
Ironically conda and Homebrew themselves need to be installed from a script off the internet
- kalefranz 7y agoConda has an .exe installer on Windows and a .pkg installer on macOS. Both signed by Anaconda, Inc. for the OS. There are RPM and deb bootstrap repos for Linux. Then there’s also the .sh shar file installer.
- bonoboTP 7y agoIt would be nice to have something like a fusion of conda and apt to work right out of the box on distros like Ubuntu. Like an "apt install --user". I don't understand why we need root rights to install programs that will not need root rights to run anyway. Seems like a huge and obvious oversight to me. I guess it's not a big pain point because in most cases people use their own machines and have root access. Not always the case though in companies or university labs for example.
- detuur 7y agoI have been wondering this for ages. Just last week I had to manually set up KeePass, VSCode, IntelliJ, Guitar (git ui) by manually unpacking tarballs (luckily already built) into ~/bin. Guitar luckily had an AppImage which worked beautifully as a single executable. For that reason alone I'm a huge fan of AppImage above snaps and flatpaks.