Support for an automated install of Regolith

[nagi]

New Feature - "officially" support automated installs

TLDR

Officially support this .../install-release-ubuntu-22.04-amd64.txt, which is tucked behing the Ubuntu 22.04 tab here
.../docs/using-regolith/install/.

Installing Regolith is a manual process:

1. Go to the Regolith website
2. Navigate to the install page on the docs
3. Copy and paste a bunch of commands

It would be nice to be able to automate this in a manor which should work across differing versions of Regolith. Currently, any of those steps may change between versions for perfectly legitimate and reasonable reasons.

A potential solution

Something like the package manager Homebrew does...

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Or, if that's a bit too much, something like the Clojure tool Leiningen does. Their install instructions link to a script which installs the latest stable version, but leaves it to the user to execute. They might curl it down, but at their own discretion.

The script would contain something like:

#!/bin/env bash

set -e

UBUNTU_CODENAME=$(lsb_release -cs)
REGOLITH_STABLE_VERSION=v3.2

case "$UBUNTU_CODENAME" in
"noble" | "jammy")
  echo "Installing Regolith $REGOLITH_STABLE_VERSION"
  ;;
*)
  echo "Error: Currently, only 'noble' or 'jammy' are supported on the stable release of Regolith." >&2
  echo "Your current Ubuntu codename is: $UBUNTU_CODENAME" >&2
  exit 1
  ;;
esac

wget -qO - https://archive.regolith-desktop.com/regolith.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/regolith-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
echo deb "[arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/regolith-archive-keyring.gpg] https://archive.regolith-desktop.com/ubuntu/stable $UBUNTU_CODENAME $REGOLITH_STABLE_VERSION" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/regolith.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install regolith-desktop regolith-session-flashback regolith-look-lascaille

... which get's updated during the release process.

[nagi]

As an aside, I'm Just posting to check if this feature might be useful for anyone else. I suspect it might only be me who does this enough for it to warrant the effort!

Assuming it gains traction, it would suck if the script and install instructions diverge. Given that the website is generated with Hugo, it might be prudent to have the install script feed into the install instructions in the docs. Happy to implement that bit if there is broad support for the feature. Edit: Bad idea

[000baar-afk]

its three commands i dont think its that hard or was it changed recently

[nagi]

its three commands i don't think its that hard or was it changed recently

That's true, but it is a manual process, and can't be easily automated (although I did take the time to do that).