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Cwilliams @beehaw.org

1y ago

Anyone have a better solution? :P

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WHERE IS PACMAN, our HOLY SAVIOR?
Jokes aside, paru.
- Why are there so many paru fans? Last release is a year old, constantly out of date in AUR and failing builds in Github don't scream code quality. I prefer yay.
  
  Because it's written in rust ofcourse.
  
  Because paru has a working sudoloop and config, unlike yay.
  
  It also sounds much happier, yay!
  
  I honestly go back and forth. Depends on which one I decide to try next time I reinstall. I actually used aura for a while, but switched back to yay for the --sudo flag. (I use opendoas)

topgrade? https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade
- Kinda meant it as a joke, but that's actually super cool
  
  It's a great tool but note that by default it upgrades EVERYTHING, up to and including production cloud environments if you are connected to any.

Should've used "||"
- That would be slower. This tries all of the tools in parallel.
  
  doesn't that do all of them together, possibly making you install it multiple times ?

Nix entered the chat

Microsoft: "winget!"
Nobody asked you, Microsoft. Go back to making compact nuclear reactors, because honestly that's based AF.
- wasn't a thing yet when the comic was made; technology advances so quickly...
  
  Yeah, but it's also a Windows exclusive - so it's just usable on the Windows platform, but it's a package managed for windows! winget install gimp.GIMP installs gimp, no browser necessary =)
  Check the link though. Microsoft might pull a sneaky in the future. "All Winget packages will be bundled with telemetry for security" or something like that.

Where pacman?
- sudo pacman -Sy $1
  There you go.
  
  It doesn't even run detached. Literally unrunnable.
  
  Thanks.
- Here he comes
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  Here he comes
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

“The script accepts the name of a program or package as an argument when you run it. This value is then referenced as "$1" (argument number 1). Everywhere the script says "$1", it substitutes in the name of the package you gave it. The end result is the name being tried against a large number of software repositories and package managers, and hopefully, at least one of them will be appropriate and the program will be successfully installed.”
Source: explain XKCD
- I don't think they asked for an explanation, but thanks anyways!
  ExplainXKCD's a great site, more XKCD readers should know about it!
  
  Nobody asked, but I needed it. Thought that perhaps I’m not alone, so now that I have the answer, might as well share it here.
- Yep, thanks!

flatpak install "$1" snap install "$1" appimage-cli-tool install "$1"
- cd "$1" && docker-compose up -d
- flatpak good snap bad, amirite?

Where's sudo emerge -avq $1?? How dare you omit it?! Blasphemy!

The final fallback should be robodialing some tech support service and provide TeamViewer credentials

You're gonna need a -y on apt-get

wait.. no alpine apk?! :)

nix-shell -p "$1"

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

Nix!

emerge!

gam (GitHub Application Manager)

Is YaST still a thing? Surprised Randall hasn't touched/included SuSE. Then again, maybe the joke was already long enough.
- It would be zypper these days.

I am not the most experienced by any means, but wouldn't it be better to run it with a ";" in the spot off all of the "&" so that way if one of the commands fail it doesn't stop mid script?
- Yeah you are right. Thanks for the correction

winget install choco install scoop install

Missing pkcon

Unless you have a pretty exotic architecture, i.e neither x86 nor ARM, then arguably Docker "should" be "enough".

xbps-install ?

What are you trying to acomplish with it?
It looks to me like XY Problem
- They're trying to accomplish a joke.

Maybe also https://asdf-vm.com/

Yeah, that's about right these days.

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