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Did I miss something or is there no Ubuntu or Debian installer? I certainly know how to download a file and add it to my path (or put it in my personal bin dir
by jensenbox 3y ago
Did I miss something or is there no Ubuntu or Debian installer?
I certainly know how to download a file and add it to my path (or put it in my personal bin directory) but sure would be nice to have a super simple installer.
LOL - please do not make a snap or whatever the hell the "cool kids" use. I certainly wouldn't want to advocate continued use of that pattern for utility functions.
- 2h 3y agoThis has got to be the pettiest gripes I have heard in a while. It's already built, you literally just extract and run: https://github.com/wader/fq/releases/tag/v0.6.0 https://github.com/wader/fq/releases/tag/v0.6.0
- dima55 3y agoIt's already in stock Debian.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoYou can always submit a PR that adds releases support for Debian or RPM packages or whatever format you like. I might consider doing that next week, just realised I have no idea how a RPM is made, and I haven’t thought about making a Debian package in years.
- piperswe 3y agoSince this is written in Go, it's almost trivial to use fpm [1] to generate a variety of packages. Alternatively you can use nfpm [2] if you don't want to have to deal with installing Ruby & a gem. [1]: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm [2]: https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm
- wwader 3y agoHi author here. Releases support as in package .deb and .rpm myself for each relese?
- sillystuff 3y agoIt is available in the main repos in Bookworm and Sid. Bookworm will become the new stable version in a couple months.
- sillystuff 3y ago> in a couple months Or, a few days... time flies.