Installer/updater to fetch binary packages (from GitHub)

[abitrolly]

There should be a better way to install/update verified binaries from GitHub than copy/pasting this shell lines - https://github.com/yakshaveinc/linux/blob/18273d092bee52cfd51551d60281e43b637381ee/docops/CHEATSHEET.md

It can be fixed by a tool with some query logic. Let's name it instabin.

• [ ] admin story - sudo instabin terraform - should make /usr/local/bin/terraform available
  • [ ] discover where terraform binary is
  • [ ] use (prior) knowledge provided by user
  • [ ] lookup
    • [ ] own user maintained database
    • [ ] existing packages databases
    • [ ] google
  • [ ] extract location of GitHub repo or package with the binary
    • [ ] download the package
    • [ ] extract binary
    • [ ] symlink to ~/bin
    • [ ] record data - where the repo is, what is the repo, etc.

Existing solutions

• [ ] https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux - huge installation of the toolset itself, still downloading to see where it installs files
• [ ] http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ ??? - maybe sudo based
• [ ] https://framagit.org/grumpyf0x48/liar - looks like it operates with prior knowledge

[abitrolly]

These projects look promising.

• https://github.com/jpillora/installer
• https://github.com/warrensbox/hubapp

[abitrolly]

Howebrew installation.

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==> This script will install:
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/bin/brew
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/share/doc/homebrew
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/share/man/man1/brew.1
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/share/zsh/site-functions/_brew
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/etc/bash_completion.d/brew
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/Homebrew
==> The following new directories will be created:
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/bin
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/etc
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/include
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/lib
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/sbin
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/share
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/var
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/opt
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/share/zsh
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/share/zsh/site-functions
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/var/homebrew
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/var/homebrew/linked
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/Cellar
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/Caskroom
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/Homebrew
/home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/Frameworks
...
Warning: /home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/bin is not in your PATH.
==> Installation successful!

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$ du -hs ~/.linuxbrew 
508M    /home/anatoli/.linuxbrew