lnav PPA or simply a statically compiled .deb for Ubuntu would be helpful (or: document static bin existence in Download instructions) about lnav HOT 1 OPEN

It appears that from poking around that maybe downloading the musl precompiled binary from https://github.com/tstack/lnav/releases/ may work... It doesn't seem that there is clear documentation indicating this, but I attempted the following which seemed to work on Ubuntu 22.04 (LXC):

mkdir ~/downloads
wget https://github.com/tstack/lnav/releases/download/v0.11.2/lnav-0.11.2-x86_64-linux-musl.zip
cd ~/downloads/
apt install unzip
unzip lnav-0.11.2-x86_64-linux-musl.zip
sudo cp lnav-0.11.2/lnav /usr/local/bin
 $ which lnav
/usr/local/bin/lnav
 $ lnav --help
usage: lnav [options] [logfile1 logfile2 ...]

A log file viewer for the terminal that indexes log messages to
make it easier to navigate through files quickly.

Key Bindings
...
Version: lnav 0.11.2

It might be useful to document this more clearly somehow or put this in the downloads references on the main site to be clear to folks that they can get a static binary version to use in such cases and avoid headaches with Snap and .debs.

A 32mb well placed static binary is far better than Snap AND fighting dependency hell AND installing compilation support libraries in the hundreds of megs realm that may be simply a one-off situation.

from lnav.