Thomas Juberg tjuberg

Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
Use grep to find the line containing file URL
Use cut and tr to extract the URL
Use wget to download it

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \

The problem

Initial situation

Using Fedora 38, say you want to update the package albert from manuelschneid3r, hosted at https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:manuelschneid3r&package=albert.

And with dnf update, you get the following output:

~ sudo dnf update
Dependencies resolved.

Setup org.freedesktop.secrets the easy way with KeepassXC in Github Desktop

Overview

You might want to quickly authenticate with your Github Account to avoid having to manually configure GIT.

Although if you're using a lightweight distribution you might discover that you have to manually find a provider for org.freedesktop.secrets.

I encountered this problem and wanted to share my thoughts and general pointers from what I've learned!

1. switch nginx image to openresty/openresty

2. add the following to server/location (/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf)

   set $req_header "";
   set $resp_header "";
   header_filter_by_lua_block{ 
      local h = ngx.req.get_headers();
      for k, v in pairs(h) do
         ngx.var.req_header = ngx.var.req_header .. k.."="..v.." ";

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Script to create ansible playbook directories
	# With thanks to https://gist.github.com/skamithi/11200462 for giving me the idea

	# We attempt to lay everything out according to Ansible best practices:
	# https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_best_practices.html#playbooks-best-practices#directory-layout

	gitinit(){
	# Start with sensible .gitignore defaults

	machine github.com
	login technoweenie
	password SECRET

	machine api.github.com
	login technoweenie
	password SECRET

	#!/usr/bin/python3
	import requests
	import argparse
	import sys

	# add terms to this list which will be ignored for ini file generation.
	# eg. every host var that contains ther term remote_tower will be ignored
	exclude_host_vars = [ 'remote_tower']

	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Convert Ansible AWX/Tower Inventory to standard inventory')

	#!/bin/bash
	print_version() {
	cat <<EOF
	####################################################################################
	#
	# Author: Lucas Halbert <[email protected]>
	# Date: 10/14/2019
	# Last Edited: 10/14/2019
	# Version: 2019.10.14
	# Description: Parse a BIND DNS zone (minus the SOA) and import directly to IPA

	#!/bin/bash

	#
	# Program: Resize LVM disk and partition <resize_disk.sh>
	#
	# Author: Mikhail Grigorev <sleuthhound at gmail dot com>
	#
	# Current Version: 1.0.1
	#
	# License:

	If you're running the Zabbix on CentOS 8 with SELinux enabled on it, then you must do all command on this section.

	Install SELinux utilities using the dnf command below.

	dnf install policycoreutils checkpolicy setroubleshoot-server

	Once the installation is complete, create a new directory '~/zabbix-linux' and go into it.

	mkdir -p ~/zabbix-selinux
	cd ~/zabbix-selinux/