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by strags 4022 days ago
We evolved packaging systems for a reason - they provide a standardized way to manage dependencies, provide clean uninstalls, etc... Having a shellscript pooping files arbitrarily into the filesystem is so 90's.

Seriously - you pretty much just have to make a .dep and a .rpm and you're covered. Is that so hard?

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> you pretty much just have to make a .dep and a .rpm and you're covered

Author already did that [1] and has both .deb and .rpm:

https://asciinema.org/docs/installation