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stew
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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
1bin
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I made a tool to download and run popular CLI tools like youtube-dl, jq, and ripgrep without installing them
It's been working pretty well so I thought I'd share. You can visit 1bin.org to find download links and copy/paste friendly snippets to install each tool, or check out the repo if you're curious how it works.
What are some alternatives?
bin - Effortless binary manager
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
eget - Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.
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.
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
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
steam-for-linux - Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client
flathub - Issue tracker and new submissions
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS