The current project is still in the development stage, so the software will output a lot of unnecessary information.(The option verbose is now added.)

ReleaseButler is designed to simplify the software installation process on Github on Linux systems🤗. It can automatically detect the underlying Linux distribution, obtain and install the corresponding software package from the designated GitHub project homepage, and also supports update operations.

At present, I want to implement something similar to the BSD-based "ports-like system", like Arch Linux's ABS, or like Gentoo Linux's protage. What I want now is not even as complicated as ABS, and I haven't even thought about the USE variable like Gentoo Linux.

TODO:

• Use JSON format to store package information.
• Use the build field to store some work performed after installation.
• Use the install field to store some preparation work before installation.
• I want to realize that if the name of the software package is not provided, it will clone the repository directly by default and prepare to start compiling it.
• Want to create a repository on GitHub to store the json file for software package installation, so that users can directly import and install it. In other words, it's like nix (but I'm just too lazy to learn nix syntax, so I insisted on writing one myself)
• Currently, it's using sudo to install the software. It has not checked whether the user rights of the current software are non-root users, and it has not checked sudo (I'm planning to implement it to detect whether there are doas if there is no sudo).
• I want to realize that it supports many software (source code) distribution platforms, but it is only processed with GitHub.

⚠️: You must first install sudo instead of open-doas or other similar software. If you don’t want to rely heavily on sudo, you can choose to modify the source code 😀. Or if I think of it later, I will try to add detection for sudo or doas. I have added detection for /usr/bin/sudo and /usr/bin/doas.

Automatic release detection: ReleaseButler determines the Linux distribution of the running environment to ensure compatibility with various systems.

INSTALL & UPDATE: Easily install packages using a single command. ReleaseButler supports updates to keep your installed software up to date.

Try to adapt to various situations: Try to introduce various fields to adapt to the installation steps of various repositories.

$ releasebutler install --package <name> --pakname <package name> --from <url> [--verbose]

The --package field accepts the name of the software to be installed, and the packname field is the name of the software package, for example fastfetch-linux-amd64.deb is packname.

Installing from the command line does not yet support all fields (like install, build, etc.).

$ releasebutler --update

$ releasebutler --parse <file name>

You can add -verbose to get more debug output

$ relesebutler --verbose

{
    "fastfetch": {
       "pakname": "fastfetch-linux-amd64.deb",
       "url": "https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch",
       "version": "2.13.2",
       "build" : [
          "touch something",
          "touch haaa"
       ],
       "install" : [
          "echo something > something"
       ],
       "clone": false,
       "download" : false
    }
}

• pakname is the package name of the Release page.
• build used to store some operations to be performed before downloading the software.
• install used to store some operations to be performed after the software is installed.
• clone indicates whether to directly clone the repository.
• download indicates whether to just download the package from Release instead of calling the system package manager to install it after downloading.

• Debian/Ubuntu/Deepin
• Fedora

If you compile this project under Debian OS:

$ sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev 
$ git clone https://github.com/suoyuan666/ReleaseButler.git
$ cd ReleaseButler
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
$ cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
$ cmake --build build -j `nproc`

If it is compiled under other platforms, forgive me for being lazy and look for the package name of the libcurl4-openssl-dev package corresponding to other versions. 😛

I tried to compile this project in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I installed the required software using the following code.

$ sudo zypper install libcurl-devel clang18 llvm18-gold cmake