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Asdf – the language tool version manager
Downside: it's all shell scripts. Upside: it's all shell scripts.
Seriously through, it's pretty easy to create an asdf plugin, and it works great. But it would be great if there were a static executable to handle it all.
A couple projects out there come close, but need people to contribute code to finish the most useful functionality. One example is https://github.com/marcosnils/bin - the developer is fully in favor of improvements and added features, but needs someone with the free time to add them.
- An ode to Flatpak (and Fedora Silverblue)
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stew: An independent package manager for compiled binaries
Looks good. The problem is, there's also https://github.com/marcosnils/bin - now i don't know which one to use :/
- Show HN: Install and update binaries via GitHub Releases API
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The culmination of several months of work by dozens of people, Flatpak 1.14.0 is now out!
There used to be a project called ginstall.sh that kept like, a manually maintained database of various projects with static binaries and how to install them. It still exists, but maintenance stopped because its model was also not sustainable. Its use case is better covered by tools like asdf, stew, and if you want to get even simpler, eget.
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I made a tool to download and run popular CLI tools like youtube-dl, jq, and ripgrep without installing them
This is a recipe for a disaster. Just use Stew.
- stew: An independent package manager for compiled binaries
What are some alternatives?
PrivateBin - A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.
hastebin - open source pastebin written in node.js
eget - Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.
Paste
pastel - A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
github-releases-notifier - Receive Slack notifications for new releases of your favorite software on GitHub.
1bin
peg - Peg, Parsing Expression Grammar, is an implementation of a Packrat parser generator.
flatpak-external-data-checker - A tool for checking if the external data used in Flatpak manifests is still up to date
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
steam-for-linux - Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client