Provide deb/rpm repositories

Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

Current distribution happens with a .deb file but it is not integrated with apt updates

Proposed solution

Add a repository to enable users to do easier updates of gh, it will enable to get the latest fixes and features.

Additional context

We definitely want this and just haven't had the time to set it up yet.

If it even needs saying, for RPM distros as well.

For those that are interested, I am using the following script as a workaround for now (requires curl and jq):

#!/bin/bash
set -eu
LATEST_RELEASE=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/cli/cli/releases/latest)
VERSION=$(echo $LATEST_RELEASE | jq -r '.tag_name')
DEB_URL=$(echo $LATEST_RELEASE | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url | select(. | contains("linux_amd64.deb"))')

EXISTING_VERSION="v$(gh version | head -n1 | cut -d ' ' -f3)"
if [[ "$EXISTING_VERSION" == "$VERSION" ]]; then echo "Already on latest version $VERSION."; exit 0; fi

read -p "Press [Enter] to update gh to version $VERSION"

wget --quiet -O gh_latest.deb $DEB_URL
sudo dpkg -i gh_latest.deb
rm gh_latest.deb
gh --version

I use homebrew for linux on my part and it work well
https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew-core/blob/5842a271e3486c070f416f9cac82ad74c66cf97a/Formula/gh.rb

No description when installing the deb file

Hi yes hello I too would like to apt-get install gh if at all possible. Specifically, my use case is including the gh CLI in Codespaces environments ❤️

Thanks again for this amazing tool. The combination of the nag screen about the new version of gh available at the bottom of every use of it combined with inability to easily automatically upgrade on Ubuntu is a little annoying. Since you don't seem to want this to be install-and-forget, I would hope you would consider making a PPA a higher priority.

@nikolaik

This is my bash auto-installer for now, based on @nikolaik's script above.

TMPDIR="$(mktemp -dt "$(basename "$0").XXXXXXXXXX")"
export TMPDIR

on_exit ()
{
    rm -rf "$TMPDIR"
}

trap on_exit EXIT

exceeds-version-pkg() {
    local pkg="$1"
    local version="$2"

    local -a curr_version
    readarray -t curr_versions < <(apt-cache show "$pkg" | perl -ne 'print if s/Version: //;')

    for curr_version in "${curr_versions[@]}"; do
        if dpkg --compare-versions "$curr_version" ge "$version"; then
            return 0
        fi
    done

    return 1
}

install-deb () {
    local pkg="$1"
    local url="$2"

    local deb="$TMPDIR/${pkg}.deb"

    wget --quiet -O "$deb" "$url"
    sudo dpkg --install "$deb"
}

install-gh () {
    # based on https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/448#issuecomment-627322284
    local latest_release="$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/cli/cli/releases/latest)"
    local latest_version="$(jq -r '.tag_name' <<< $latest_release | sed -e 's/^v//')"
    local url="$(jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url | select(. | contains("linux_amd64.deb"))' <<< "$latest_release")"

    if ! exceeds-version-pkg gh "$latest_version"; then
        install-deb gh "$url"
    fi
}

install-gh

Watchers and lurkers: deb and rpm repositories are now live. If any adventurous souls would like to test them out and report back it'd be much appreciated.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key C99B11DEB97541F0
sudo apt-add-repository -u https://cli.github.com/packages
sudo apt install gh

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://cli.github.com/packages/rpm/gh-cli.repo
sudo dnf install gh

@vilmibm

So far working great @vilmibm. Will report on next release how the upgrade went. (I'm using .deb.)

Working properly, using dnf. Will report about the upgrade process once v0.12 is released.

Trying to run from Ubuntu in WSL. First command ran fine.

/mnt/c/Users/accou ⌚ 11:58:06
$ sudo apt-add-repository -u https://cli.github.com/packages
Ign:1 https://cli.github.com/packages bionic InRelease
Err:2 https://cli.github.com/packages bionic Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 185.199.108.153 443]
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu-make/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Hit:7 https://apt.llvm.org/bionic llvm-toolchain-bionic-6.0 InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'https://cli.github.com/packages bionic Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

@bnb

Hi everyone, we just pushed a v0.12 release to our deb & RPM repository: https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v0.12.0

If you can try to upgrade, that would be great! Thank you 🙇

@bnb I think we only publish packages for Ubuntu 20.04 for now! We can look into what would be involved in covering 18.04 as well.

I just upgraded and it worked great! Ubuntu 20.04

All extant Ubuntu LTS should now be supported.

Thanks for the QA help, y'all!

@vilmibm

Thanks @vilmibm and @mislav ❤️

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vilmibm commented on Feb 14, 2020

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