• KernelTale@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 小时前

      Cachy has a tray icon running the updates in terminal. It likely can be started from terminal as well and I think it was like octopy?

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    15 小时前

    I do both. If I know exactly what I want to install, I’ll install it from the terminal because it’s often more direct. If I go “I need an app that does thing, what’s available?”

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        35 分钟前

        apt-search and dnf-search both exist. I have used both. I prefer a GUI for that because they’ll provide things like screenshots, no CLI tool does, neither to TUI tools like Aptitude.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
      41·
      23 小时前

      Never thought about it, but wouldn’t that just fail after the first one it fails to find? I think most install commands return nonzero if nothing is installed

      Should probably use or instead of and

    • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
      1·
      20 小时前

      I don’t get it. Looks like a script that runs all these things, but I don’t get the one dollar.

      • FlexibleToast@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        20 小时前

        The $1 is a positional variable. So if you run ./script.sh arg1 $1 would be arg1 in that example, $0 would be the ./script.sh. It’s the simplest way to pass an argument to a script.

        • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
          1·
          20 小时前

          So… huh? What role does this play, since all the lines in the picture have $1? If you run it with arg1, won’t it run them all? And if you left out arg1 and also didn’t add $1 to each line, wouldn’t it also just run all of them?

          • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            15 小时前

            So the joke is, you’ve got something you want to install, be it a Python module, Java library, steam game, desktop application, whatever. You want it installed, figuring out which package manager has it and remembering the exact command syntax starts getting to be a pain, so just use this script to try installing it from a variety of sources.

            You would evoke it by running ./install.sh package and it will replace all instances of $1 with the string “package” at runtime. The ampersand at the end of each line will run that line as a separate background process rather than in the foreground process, so effectively this will attempt to install “package” or whatever you put in as an argument from a half dozen sources simultaneously in parallel.

            These include the old and new Python package managers, the old and new Red Hat package managers, debian/Ubuntu’s APT with and without sudo, cloning a git repo and building from source, and the icing on the cake is curling directly into bash.

            Don’t curl directly into bash. You’ll catch genital rabies.

            Remember that this is an XKCD comic, it’s a joke. The alt-text says “The failures usually don’t hurt anything and if it installs multiple versions it increases the chance one of them is right. (the ‘yes’ command and ‘2>/dev/null’ are recommended additions.)” “Yes” is a bash command that will spam ‘y’ in the terminal, the point of it is to answer yes to any questions an automated system asks, and 2>/dev/null will stop it from displaying errors. These add an even deeper level of Yolo-ing.

          • A Basil Plant@lemmy.world
            6·
            18 小时前

            If you run it with arg1, won’t it run them all?

            Yes, that is the intention. When you’re following some guide online and it requires you use some “software”, you may not know how to install that software.

            This install.sh script tries package managers, because one of them will probably work. Others will fail.

            For example, installing numpy (python package): pip install succeeds and all the other ones (hopefully) fail.

            Installing libcurl4-openssl-dev (curl with openssl library file): apt-get install works and all other ones (hopefully) fails.

            Longer and more thorough explanation:

            https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1654:_Universal_Install_Script

  • konomi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    441·
    1 天前

    I’ll keep making Debian users aware that they can do it all in one command since Trixie.

    sudo apt --update --autoremove --with-new-pkgs upgrade
    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      43 分钟前

      I use bazzite on my BC250 console but bazzite’s package management is horrible lmao.

      It’s good for something you install and never touch but not adequate for general purpose computing.

      Pacman is an amazing package manager, dnf is probably better but inertia has me prefer pacman. The rest suck