🚀 Install Release

Install Release is a CLI tool by name ir to install any single-binary executable package for your device(Linux/MacOS/WSL) directly from their GitHub releases and keep them updated. Consider it as a small package manager to install single binary tools from GitHub releases.

This can be any tool you want to install, which is pre-compiled for your device and present on GitHub releases.

INFO: It's mainly for installing tools that are not directly available officially by package managers like apt, yum, pacman, brew etc.

Table of Contents 📚

• Table of Contents 📚
• Getting started ⚡
• Prerequisites 📋
• Install install-release package 📦
• Updating install-release 🔄
• Example usage ir --help 💡
  • Install completion for cli 🎠
  • Install tool from GitHub releases 🌈
  • List installed tools 📋
  • Remove installed release ❌
  • Update all previously installed tools to the latest version 🕶️
  • Pull state templates for installing tools 📄
  • Hold Update to specific installed tool ✋
  • Config tool installation path 🗂️
  • Config updates for pre-release versions 🔌
  • Configure GitHub token for higher rate limit 🔑

Getting started ⚡

# Install ir
pip install -U install-release

Example Installation a tool named deno(A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript) directly from its GitHub releases.

# ir get [GITHUB-URL]

❯ ir get https://github.com/denoland/deno

Checking for deno is installed by install-release:

❯ which deno
~/bin/deno

❯ deno --version
deno 1.46.3 (stable, release, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
v8 12.9.202.5-rusty
typescript 5.5.2

Prerequisites 📋

• python3.8 or higher

• libmagic

• Default releases Installation Path is: ~/bin/, This is the path where installed tools will get stored.

• In order to run installed tools, you need to add the following line to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH

Install install-release package 📦

pip install -U install-release

Updating install-release 🔄

For seeing version:

ir me --version

For updating:

ir me --upgrade

Example usage ir --help 💡

# Help page

❯ ir --help
Usage: ir [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  GitHub Release Installer, based on your system

  Commands:
    get      | Install GitHub release, cli tool
    ls       | list all installed releases, cli tools
    rm       | remove any installed release, cli tools
    upgrade  | Upgrade all installed releases, cli tools
    state    | show currently stored state
    config   | Set configs for tool
    pull     | Install tools from a remote state
    hold     | Keep updates a tool on hold.
    me       | Update ir tool.

For sub-command help use: ir <sub-command> --help

Example: ir get --help

Install completion for cli 🎠

# ir --install-completion [SHELL: bash|zsh|fish|powershell]
# Example for zsh:
ir --install-completion zsh

Install tool from GitHub releases 🌈

❯ ir get "https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx"

📑 Repo     : ahmetb/kubectx
🌟 Stars    : 13295
✨ Language : Go
🔥 Title    : Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl

                              🚀 Install: kubectx
┏━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Name    ┃ Selected Item                      ┃ Version ┃ Size Mb ┃ Downloads ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ kubectx │ kubectx_v0.9.4_linux_x86_64.tar.gz │ v0.9.4  │ 1.0     │ 43811     │
└─────────┴────────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴───────────┘
Install this tool (Y/n): y
 INFO     Downloaded: 'kubectx_v0.9.4_linux_x86_64.tar.gz' at /tmp/dn_kubectx_ph6i7dmk                                                               utils.py:159
 INFO     install /tmp/dn_kubectx_ph6i7dmk/kubectx /home/noobi/bin/kubectx                                                                  core.py:132
 INFO     Installed: kubectx

# checking if kubectx is installed
❯ which kubectx
/home/noobi/bin/kubectx

❯ kubectx --version
0.9.4

List installed tools 📋

❯ ir ls

                       Installed tools
┏━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Name      ┃ Version ┃ Url                                  ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ terrascan │ v1.15.2 │ https://github.com/tenable/terrascan │
│ gron      │ v0.7.1  │ https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron    │
│ kubectx   │ v0.9.4  │ https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx    │
└───────────┴─────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘

Remove installed release ❌

# Remove installed release

❯ ir rm gron

INFO     Removed: gron

Update all previously installed tools to the latest version 🕶️

❯ ir upgrade

Fetching: https://github.com/tenable/terrascan#terrascan
Fetching: https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx#kubectx

Following tools will be upgraded:

terrascan

Upgrade these tools, (Y/n): y

Updating: terrascan, v1.15.0 => v1.15.2
 INFO     Downloaded: 'terrascan_1.15.2_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz' at /tmp/dn_terrascan_0as71a6v
 INFO     install /tmp/dn_terrascan_0as71a6v/terrascan ~/bin/terrascan
 INFO     Installed: terrascan

Progress... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% 0:00:00

Pull state templates for installing tools 📄

You can push your state to somewhere like GitHub and use it for any other device, to make a sync for tools installed via ir

❯ ir pull --url https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Rishang/dotFiles/main/templates/install-release/state.json

Hold Update to specific installed tool ✋

In case you want to hold an update to the specific tool, you can use hold {tool-name} command which will pause update for that tool.

Example: keep tool named k9s update on hold

❯ ir hold k9s
 INFO     Update on hold for, k9s to True

You can list tools on hold updates by ls --hold command

❯ ir ls --hold
             Installed tools kept on hold
┏━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Name ┃ Version ┃ Url                               ┃
┡━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ k9s  │ v0.26.7 │ https://github.com/derailed/k9s   │
└──────┴─────────┴───────────────────────────────────┘

In case you want to unhold update to the specific tool, you can use hold --unset {tool-name} command by which it will pause update for that tool.

❯ ir hold --unset k9s
 INFO     Update on hold for, k9s to False

Config tool installation path 🗂️

❯ ir config --path ~/.local/bin

INFO   updated path to:  ~/.local/bin
INFO   Done

Config updates for pre-release versions 🔌

This is useful when you want to install pre-release versions of tools like beta or alpha releases. By default, it is set to False in which case it will only check for latest release.

❯ ir config --pre-release

Configure GitHub token for higher rate limit 🔑

❯ ir config --token [your github token]

INFO: Update token
INFO: Done.