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Operating system image (.iso files usually) downloader which acts more like a package manager

License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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osget's Introduction

Osget

Downloads ISO files for different operating systems. A package manager for operating systems image files.

Installation:

git clone https://github.com/gnarlin/osget.git
cd osget
sudo ./install.sh --install

You can also use the debian package on Debian based distributions:

sudo apt install ./osget_1.6_all.deb

If you want to use the tradition method:

sudo dpkg -i osget_1.6_all.deb

This uninstalls osget, all configuration files and the oslist repository:

sudo ./install.sh --uninstall

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osget's Issues

Consider creating and/or tagging releases

Hi, I've noticed you denote releases in your git commits, but I think it would be easier if you used either GitHub's release system or git's internal tags. I would recommend using GitHub's releases as you'd be able to upload a .deb package for download, without needing to clone the entire repository; you would no longer need to maintain the full tarball in your repo either.

Use git instead of ftp for oslist repository and host oslist on github

I've been thinking of changing the repository system to use git instead of ftp. It would not only be so much more efficient but I could host the repo on github and you could post pull requests to it instead of osget itself and then osget just pull from that repo for each future release. What do you think?

Windows ISO Support for osget

Description

Add Windows OS ISO support to osget, expanding its capabilities to cover both Linux and Windows operating system images.

Details

Integrate functionality for downloading Windows ISOs alongside existing Linux distributions.
Consider using Fido, a PowerShell script, as a reference or for integration with Windows download servers.

Additional Info

For Fido script details, visit https://github.com/pbatard/Fido.

Linux Mint: Not the latest version(s)

Linux Mint doesn't get updatet to the latest version (20.02 atm). Also note there is a Debian version (LMDE) of Mint.

Make updating usable without sudo

Nice script!

Unfortunately not usable if you have an installation that doesn't use sudo, because updating the oslist requires that.
And as an added feature: Maybe have the oslist written into a a different (user) directory as an option?

Is macOS supported?

The install script doesn’t work because root is not a valid group, it should be wheel instead.
sed -i '' 's/:root/:wheel/' install.sh

Is it possible for the oslist to self update?

I just discovered this tool, but am seeing especially rolling release distros like Arch not being up-to-date.
It would be very helpful if the oslist would be able to self-update if a new version of an OS is released.
Any chance of making this possible?

Make $CONFIGURATION_DIR optional

Your script (and the install script) requires administrator rights as it wants to write to /etc/osget
which isn't always possible, wanted (or even necessary at all).

With an optional installation path and/or oslist path it would work more independent of user rights.
IMO an optional installation into user's ~ would be a good idea.