Change installation for RPM and Deb to use yum/dnf and apt.

[stahnma]

We should walk the user through setting up a package repository to install flox (or at least have that as an option) since it would install dependencies and prompt for GPG key importation and such.

Note this could also mean modification of the uninstall procedures.

[tomberek]

Need to explore:

• Segfault when trying with dnf on CentOS7. Not sure why yet.
  • (edit: I tried to install dnf. And then flox)

[stahnma]

@tomberek CentOS 7 uses yum not dnf, so I'm even more confused.

[0] stahnma@nuc ~> cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
[0] stahnma@nuc ~> which dnf
/usr/bin/which: no dnf in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/puppetlabs/bin:/stahnma/bin:/run/wrappers/bin://home/stahnma/.nix-profile/bin:/etc/profiles/per-user/stahnma/bin:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin:/run/current-system/sw/bin:/bin:/stahnma/bin:/run/wrappers/bin://home/stahnma/.nix-profile/bin:/etc/profiles/per-user/stahnma/bin:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin:/run/current-system/sw/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/home/stahnma/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/stahnma/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin:/home/stahnma/go/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:/home/stahnma/.flox/run/x86_64-linux.default/bin)
[1] stahnma@nuc ~> which yum
/usr/bin/yum
[0] stahnma@nuc ~>

[tomberek]

Apt on an Ubuntu LiveCD works with dpkg, but fails with

Directory renamed before its status could be extracted

which seems related to:

• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-04/msg00021.html
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1728489

Perhaps related to being on overlayfs or symbolic links in the tarball.

[tomberek]

Doing this with keys:

wget -qO - https://downloads.flox.dev/by-env/stable/deb/flox-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/flox.gpg >/dev/null
sudo add-apt-repository -S "deb https://downloads.flox.dev/by-env/stable/deb/ stable/"
sudo apt update

[tomberek]

This should work now. These are likely more correct ways to use these tools. These are also more complicated than download and run the file. But they ARE tested! https://github.com/flox/flox-installers/pull/244/files#diff-46ba6075f63da0cb2a6b89e6834c5335ef0d63563a460a4f938242f0771ef654R29-R44

Deb

wget -qO - https://downloads.flox.dev/by-env/stable/deb/flox-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/flox.gpg >/dev/null
sudo add-apt-repository -S "deb https://downloads.flox.dev/by-env/stable/deb/ stable/"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install flox

Yum

rpm --import https://downloads.flox.dev/by-env/stable/rpm/flox-archive-keyring.asc
yum --repofrompath=flox,https://downloads.flox.dev/by-env/stable/rpm install flox

@stahnma go with something along these lines? thoughts?

[ghudgins]

@stahnma is this something we can move forward on?

[stahnma]

#33 is related (or is this).