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Provide a simple download link for iofogctl #135
Description
In the installation instructions of iofogctl I can't find any simple download link for the Linux binary.
See: https://iofog.org/docs/2/iofogctl/download.html
And I don't want to run some shell script with sudo access directly from curl.
As you provided the link for Windows, I think it makes sense to do the same for Linux and Mac OS X.
Just like others do it as well: https://github.com/helm/helm/releases
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Pixcell commentedon Nov 25, 2020
@ctron I understand the reticency to run a script using sudo. However this is standard practice if you want to use your linux package manager to install iofogctl and be able to manage updates. We haven't written this script ourselves, it is provided by our cloud package provider (https://packagecloud.io/)
Here are the manual installation steps: https://packagecloud.io/iofog/iofogctl/install#manual-deb
We should probably add those as an option in our documention
ctron commentedon Sep 23, 2021
"Standard practice" is a bit far fetched. Yes, a package manager like RPM is standard practice. "curling" and running scripts as sudo however is not.
Maybe take some inspiration from the
kubectltools: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl-linux/Also other tools, simply provide a download link (no root access required):
So if you want to make it easy, provide a simple download link. Additional options maybe helpful, but might also cause more problems.
sergerad commentedon Sep 23, 2021
@ctron currently working on it. If you want to download a dev binary in the meantime:
https://storage.googleapis.com/iofogctl/linux/dev/3.0/iofogctl
sergerad commentedon Sep 23, 2021
Staging iofog.org is updated with instructions to install release binary: http://iofog.staging.edgeworx.io/docs/3/iofogctl/download.html#install-iofogctl-on-linux
ctron commentedon Sep 27, 2021
This is definitely an improvement. But what speaks against using plain and simple GitHub releases downloads?