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Did I miss something or is there no Ubuntu or Debian installer?

I certainly know how to download a file and add it to my path (or put it in my personal bin directory) but sure would be nice to have a super simple installer.

LOL - please do not make a snap or whatever the hell the "cool kids" use. I certainly wouldn't want to advocate continued use of that pattern for utility functions.

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This has got to be the pettiest gripes I have heard in a while. It's already built, you literally just extract and run:

https://github.com/wader/fq/releases/tag/v0.6.0

You can always submit a PR that adds releases support for Debian or RPM packages or whatever format you like.

I might consider doing that next week, just realised I have no idea how a RPM is made, and I haven’t thought about making a Debian package in years.

Since this is written in Go, it's almost trivial to use fpm [1] to generate a variety of packages. Alternatively you can use nfpm [2] if you don't want to have to deal with installing Ruby & a gem.

[1]: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm [2]: https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm

Hi author here. Releases support as in package .deb and .rpm myself for each relese?

It's already in stock Debian.

It is available in the main repos in Bookworm and Sid. Bookworm will become the new stable version in a couple months.

> in a couple months

Or, a few days... time flies.

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