We're testing a new DuckDB install experience for Linux and MacOS: curl install.duckdb.org | bash Happy to hear feedback! - ThreadSky

hannes.muehleisen.org • 16 days ago

We're testing a new DuckDB install experience for Linux and MacOS:

curl https://install.duckdb.org | bash

Happy to hear feedback!

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ichrvk.bsky.social•15 days ago

Nothing says 'I trust you completely' like piping curl directly to bash. At least there's no sudo?

hannes.muehleisen.org•14 days ago

I know the feeling but it seems like the least worst option

brycemecum.com•15 days ago

Nice! Did you consider symlinking into $HOME/.local/bin to avoid the user having to update PATH? I already have that in my path because other tools follow that standard (Freedesktop/XDG).

davisvaughan.bsky.social•15 days ago

This is also the place tools like Air and Ruff use - the fact that this location often exists on the PATH ends up being a compelling reason to put tools here https://github.com/posit-dev/air/blob/5e2c0956f55877ed5092739f6a608c5011c3bc8d/dist-workspace.toml#L40

hannes.muehleisen.org•12 days ago

I've updated the script to set a symlink if ~/.local/bin exists and is writeable

hamilton.bsky.social•16 days ago

nailed it

retr0.id•16 days ago

By the way, last time I checked `gunzip -c` was more universally available than zcat

hannes.muehleisen.org•16 days ago

interesting, I did look around too and found the opposite :)

retr0.id•16 days ago

hah fair enough - both of them were present on the systems I just spot-checked, anyway

pp0196.bsky.social•16 days ago

there appear to be an issues with the ln command in the install script on ubuntu (ln (GNU coreutils) 8.32), the "h" option does not exist
```bash
ln -sfhF $INST $LATEST || exit 1
```

hannes.muehleisen.org•16 days ago

thanks Can you try again, should be fixed - you may have to
rm -r ~/.duckdb/cli
first

pp0196.bsky.social•16 days ago

Yeah it worked with no errors !

noctarius.com•16 days ago

Nice idea to use a subdomain! 👍

exilednomo.bsky.social•16 days ago

@caffeineislife.bsky.social @adhdwonderwoman.bsky.social

ssp.sh•16 days ago

You should buy `duckdb.sh` :)

hannes.muehleisen.org•16 days ago

damn that dinosaur juice company for squatting on the .shell TLD

ssp.sh•16 days ago

Let me try... :D

ssp.sh•16 days ago

ahhh, it's too cumbersome; I need to go over two domains (Namecheap and domain agents), and second login does not work. Sorry.

hannes.muehleisen.org•16 days ago

Have I mentioned that I dislike shell "programming" deeply?

doo.bsky.social•16 days ago

If you need to write any nontrivial amount of sh and not using https://www.shellcheck.net/ I can understand how terrible the experience is. And if you use it, the experience is still terrible, you just have a little more confidence the result is not :D

hannes.muehleisen.org•12 days ago

Thanks I updated the script after running through the linter

doo.bsky.social•12 days ago

Given that last two hours I spent using duckdb (and to my late embarrassment realized there's automatic hive partitioning) I'm happy to have contributed even if indirectly

matsonj.com•16 days ago

Well then you really won’t enjoy what I do with this next

brianloveswords.com•16 days ago

might be good to wrap the whole thing in a `main` function that's invoked as the last line of the script to prevent partial execution on partial download

hannes.muehleisen.org•16 days ago

thanks pushed an update

vickiboykis.com•16 days ago

damn this is super slick

hannes.muehleisen.org•16 days ago

🎉

sugatoray.bsky.social•14 days ago

👏👏 I also liked the fact that the installation checks for successful installation of duckdb by running “SELECT 42” and if it does not return 42 as a result, that means duckdb was not installed.

gunnarmorling.dev•15 days ago

Stupid question perhaps, but how's that better than brew or Linux package managers?

hannes.muehleisen.org•15 days ago

Many of our users don’t have root, so package managers are out. And installing brew just to install DuckDB is a bit much too

taras.glek.net•14 days ago

i use https://github.com/zyedidia/eget for my crossplatform duckdb install needs.

a13x.bsky.social•15 days ago

But what if I want to automatically update all my packages whenever I'm trying to get 1 thing fixed? 😀

gunnarmorling.dev•15 days ago

👀

a13x.bsky.social•15 days ago

brew always does this to me at the least opportune moment

gunnarmorling.dev•15 days ago

Hehe, yeah, I know. You can disable it though:

`export HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1`

gunnarmorling.dev•15 days ago

Mk, gotcha. Not sure I like it, but I see the motivation :)

partickle.bsky.social•16 days ago

👀

qxip.bsky.social•16 days ago

works like a charm! 👍

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