Anyone have a better solution? :P

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 Last release is a year old, constantly out of date in AUR and failing builds in Github don't scream code quality.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.
Actually, wouldn't the first equivalent on MS be .msi?

Where pacman?

sudo pacman -Sy $1

There you go.
- It doesn't even run detached. Literally unrunnable.
- Thanks.
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“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?

I think you're thinking of &&. Using a single & will run the task in the background and immediately spawn the next. Using semicolons would execute them in order.

Essentially, this is starting a whole bunch of installers all at the same time.
- Yeah you are right. Thanks for the correction