Alternative to manually install 3rd party repositories

There is an alternative to manually manage repositories and keys and that is to use extrepo

extrepo is a curated list of 3rd party repositories and keys and it's a debian package.
It's only been around a couple of years so I don't know how widely used it is yet.

Installation

To install it run

apt install extrepo Add repository

To add postgreSQL repository for example:

extrepo enable postgresql Disable repository

To disable a repository, for example:

extrepo disable postgresql Where do files go?

extrepo puts apt config files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d as you would manually but manages keys in it's own directory /var/lib/extrepo/keys

Repositories available

Currently these repositories are in there:

anydesk apertium-nightly apertium-release bareos belgium_eid_continuous brave_beta brave_nightly brave_release caddyserver consol debian_official dns-oarc docker-ce edge elbe eturnal eyrie fai feistermops gitlab_ce gitlab_ee gitlab_runner google_chrome google_cloud grafana grafana_beta grafana_enterprise grafana_enterprise_beta haproxy-2.8 i2pd janitor jellyfin jenkins jitsi-stable kea keybase kicksecure kicksecure_developers kicksecure_proposed kicksecure_testers lihas liquorix matrix mobian msteams neurodebian_software newrelic nginx node_12.x node_14.x node_16.x node_18.x notesalexp ooni openmodelica-contrib-nightly openmodelica-contrib-release openmodelica-contrib-stable openmodelica-nightly openmodelica-release openmodelica-stable openstack_antelope openstack_zed openvpn opera_stable opsi passbolt postgresql prosody proxmox-ceph-quincy proxmox-pve proxmox-pve8 r-project raspberrypi raspbian-addons realsense rspamd signal skype slack speedtest-cli spotify steam surface-linux sury syncevolution syncthing teamviewer_default teamviewer_preview torproject trinity vector vscode vscodium weechat whonix whonix_developers whonix_proposed whonix_testers winehq wire-desktop wire-internal-desktop wtf wtf-lts x2go x2go-extras x2go-lts x2go-nightly xpra xpra-beta yarnpkg zammad zulu-openjdk

Check out WingetUI, which can manage packages for choco, scoop, and winget.

Thanks I'll give this a try today

@Obsolesce said in PXE Boot & Software deployment:

@gjacobse said in PXE Boot & Software deployment:

What is your preference on PXE Boot deployment and software deployment?

SCCM and Software Center seem to be a joke here. Although it could be the team responsible for managing it.

We have a tremendous amount of issues with PXE Boot deployments, not installing the right image and thus nothing is installed or installed right ( Office 365, Adobe, VPN software, etc).

If the agent isn’t right you delete from ADUC and SCCM and start over..

We are lucky if Software Center works,... some times.

Published software packages break on a regular basis, aren’t available to install due to GPO, and you can’t run it ( that my group has found) in an elevated state for applications the user doesn’t see; not all applications are published to everyone...

We use Intune for ~10k devices across a handful of countries and is working great for device and software deployment.

I agree with this. Intune is replacing SCCM functionality in the best way possible.

@Dashrender said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

@JaredBusch said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

my Windows VM used for minor development of shit.
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I assume those KB's come from other packages you have installed?

Yeah. I never intentionally installed any of them.

The "working data" that I mentioned that scrolls by quickly before our summary chart appears from this example looks like the below output. Generally we can ignore this, but it can be useful should there be an error to see where something has gone wrong.

$ yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirrors.lga7.us.voxel.net * epel: mirror.cs.princeton.edu * extras: mirror.lug.udel.edu * updates: mirror.trouble-free.net Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package NetworkManager.x86_64 1:1.0.0-16.git20150121.b4ea599c.el7_1 will be updated ---> Package NetworkManager.x86_64 1:1.0.6-27.el7 will be updated ---> Package NetworkManager.x86_64 1:1.0.6-29.el7_2 will be an update ---> Package NetworkManager-adsl.x86_64 1:1.0.6-27.el7 will be updated ---> Package NetworkManager-adsl.x86_64 1:1.0.6-29.el7_2 will be an update ---> Package NetworkManager-bluetooth.x86_64 1:1.0.6-27.el7 will be updated ---> Package NetworkManager-bluetooth.x86_64 1:1.0.6-29.el7_2 will be an update --> Processing Dependency: libbluetooth.so.3()(64bit) for package: 1:NetworkManager-bluetooth-1.0.6-29.el7_2.x86_64 ---> Package NetworkManager-glib.x86_64 1:1.0.6-27.el7 will be updated ---> Package 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@travisdh1 said:

@johnhooks The difference is 6 compared to a half dozen (at least in this case.)

I used to know a reason why you would use less or more in certain cases, but it's been so long that I no longer remember what caused a difference.

I know of no case where you use more. I always used it because I learned it first, but less is the only one you would actually want to use.

@dafyre said in Linux: YUM Package Management:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux: YUM Package Management:

@NerdyDad said in Linux: YUM Package Management:

As of CentOS 7, DNF isn't even an option. Yum is the only thing to use.
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Correct. But it has been in fedora for a while now.

Is dnf the default in Fedora now?

Yes

I think Landscape does this plus a lot more. I think it's free for 10 physical and 10 virtual machines, but I don't know the cost after that.

There are some Juju charms that you can create a Landscape setup with pretty easily.

@dafyre said:

Not yet... I still haven't even figured out what the default desktop is... (It feels like Gnome 3 to me).

Whta is the KDE Connect?

Here's what the notifications look like:

KDE Connect

I love ninite for personal use. Nuke/pave times drop dramatically.