[DOC] AUR and MPR package

[pirate486743186]

for the REDME, lobster is in the AUR and MPR (like the AUR but for debs) https://aur.archlinux.org/lobster.git https://mpr.makedeb.org/packages/lobster-git

[justchokingaround]

did u mean this https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lobster ?

[pirate486743186]

yes i meant that. There's only one.

[justchokingaround]

i flagged it out of date, so i will wait before adding that to the README. in the meantime, i will now make a lobster-git package and add it to the README with the debian package (and later on a homebrew formula). thank you for letting me know these even existed, i had no idea!

[justchokingaround]

can you provide some instructions for how to install the MPR package, if you do not have makedeb installed, so that anyone could use it? (i assume you made that package)

[justchokingaround]

this is what im currently stuck on

[justchokingaround]

these are the installation commands i ran

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
bash -ci "$(wget -qO - 'https://shlink.makedeb.org/install')"
wget -qO - 'https://proget.makedeb.org/debian-feeds/prebuilt-mpr.pub' | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/prebuilt-mpr-archive-keyring.gpg 1> /dev/null
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/prebuilt-mpr-archive-keyring.gpg] https://proget.makedeb.org prebuilt-mpr $(lsb_release -cs)" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/prebuilt-mpr.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mist
mist install lobster-git

[pirate486743186]

Yes i made it. I'm not using a helper. If you do it the manual way it works. git clone in a folder then makedeb inside. I think mist is either broken or has missing features, don't remember. MPR is relatively new and small.

[justchokingaround]

oh ok, i will try that later then

[pirate486743186]

I would use the apt repo for installing makedeb. https://docs.makedeb.org/installing/apt-repository/

[justchokingaround]

it said in their docs that the easiest way to install it would be using their bash script:

but if you say using apt is the preferred and more standard way for debian users, i can tell users to use that installation method instead

[pirate486743186]

i don't remember any more what the script does exactly. Now i'm using the makedeb repo ... packaged by makedeb... not a great starting point. I think the repo is more familiar to most people.

[pirate486743186]

use the script, it basically does the same thing. It sets up the makedeb repo.

[pirate486743186]

Is that a VM? It want's to install git then the first thing it does is to do a git clone? It seams there's a missing dependency.

[justchokingaround]

it is a vm, yes, but iirc i had git installed (i'll check again later)

[pirate486743186]

it want to install git.

this is what im currently stuck on

[justchokingaround]

awk and perl aren't dependencies for the script, please remove them

[pirate486743186]

pushed a new one.

[justchokingaround]

added the debian instructions to the docs in 2d0024c013e2c5cb246f9349f6cf120929bd48f9 please make socat an optional dependency as well @pirate486743186 (it is used when history is enabled, but that feature is disabled by default)