Martin Wimpress, co-founder of the Ubuntu MATE team and member of the MATE project Core Team, has released the deb-get utility, which offers similar functionalities to apt-get for managing deb packages distributed through third-party repositories or available for direct download from project websites. deb-get includes standard package management commands such as update, upgrade, show, install, remove, and search, but the packages themselves are downloaded directly from repositories and sites supported by the software developers.
Essentially, deb-get is a bash script that defines the rules for downloading and updating over 80 popular programs, distributed either directly or through their own repositories. Some of these programs are not included in the official distribution repositories, often due to licensing restrictions. Others from the list may be available in the official repositories, but the versions presented there may lag significantly behind the latest releases distributed directly.
The deb-get utility allows users to utilize familiar commands to install and update these programs, eliminating the need to search for download locations for each program, to manually install deb packages, and to track updates. APT repositories, release page packages on GitHub, PPA repositories, and download sections on websites are supported as sources for installation.
Some of the suggested programs for quick installation include:
- 1Password (1password)
- Atom (atom)
- Brave (brave-browser)
- Visual Studio Code (code)
- VSCodium (codium)
- Discord (discord)
- Docker Engine (docker-ce)
- Docker Desktop (docker-desktop)
- Dropbox (dropbox)
- Element (element-desktop)
- Firefox ESR (firefox-esr)
- GitHub Desktop (github-desktop)
- GitKraken (gitkraken)
- Gitter (gitter)
- Google Chrome (google-chrome-stable)
- Google Earth Pro (google-earth-pro-stable)
- KeePassXC (keepassxc)
- Lutris (lutris)
- Mattermost Desktop (mattermost-desktop)
- Microsoft Edge (microsoft-edge-stable)
- Nextcloud Desktop (nextcloud-desktop)
- ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors (onlyoffice-desktopeditors)
- Opera (opera-stable)
- Raspberry Pi Imager (rpi-imager)
- RStudio (rstudio)
- Signal (signal-desktop)
- Skype (skypeforlinux)
- Slack (slack-desktop)
- Spotify (spotify-client)
- Sublime Text (sublime-text)
- Syncthing (syncthing)
- Microsoft Teams (teams)
- TeamViewer (teamviewer)
- Vivaldi (vivaldi-stable)
- WeeChat (weechat)
- Wire (wire-desktop)
- Zoom (zoom)
Sursa: opennet.ro
