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Why there is no deb file for debian based distros for easier install #562

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4goodapp opened this issue Feb 25, 2017 · 12 comments
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Why there is no deb file for debian based distros for easier install #562

4goodapp opened this issue Feb 25, 2017 · 12 comments

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@4goodapp
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4goodapp commented Feb 25, 2017 •
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I find it really complex for an editor supposed to replaced Vi & co...

Can you guy provide a deb file for an easier installation.
@mame98
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mame98 commented Feb 25, 2017

I can create One....

@zyedidia
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zyedidia commented Feb 25, 2017 •
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Having a deb file would be great, but it's really simple to install micro without one. Just go download the tar file for linux 64 from the releases page, then untar it, and move the resulting binary to /usr/local/bin or somewhere else on your PATH.

There is even a script from the wiki page about installation to do this automatically for you: https://gist.github.com/zyedidia/d4acfcc6acf2d0d75e79004fa5feaf24.

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@zyedidia I could look into packaging a deb? I had been planning to anyway so I could add a ppa on launchpad. Lemme know if you want that.

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mame98 commented Feb 26, 2017

I have created a small Script in an Pull Request, it is bare minimum but should be ok...

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zyedidia commented Mar 3, 2017

I'll close this now that #563 has been merged but it seems like there will be more features added to it later.

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4goodapp commented Mar 3, 2017

I'll close this now that #563 has been merged but it seems like there will be more features added to it later.

This may sound a stupid question but, Does this mean a deb file is available?

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zyedidia commented Mar 3, 2017

Yes I think so. You need to have Go installed to build the deb file, which perhaps defeats the purpose, but if you clone the repository and go to the tools directory and run ./build-deb.sh 1.1.4 then it should put a deb file in ../packages.

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4goodapp commented Mar 3, 2017

You need to have Go installed to build the deb file, which perhaps defeats the purpose,
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Definitely :)

I didn't know it was that hard? to build a deb file, I never did that.

@zyedidia
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zyedidia commented Mar 3, 2017

Well at the moment it's just not automatically built in the release script. I'll change try to change that soon though so that the deb file can be used without having to build it yourself.

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4goodapp commented Mar 3, 2017

Thanks! That'd be awsome.
Nice work/"app" by the way!!!

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Any news about this?

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hex-m commented Mar 8, 2018

The process of adding micro to the official Debian repositories is tracked here.

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