Installation guide for Ubuntu/Debian

[AntonVolkovMIR]

Please add the way of how to install your software on Debian or Ubuntu:

1. Create .deb package
2. Host it to the apt package manager.
3. Add the installation step for Ubuntu from apt package management. Like for fedora:

Ubuntu

 sudo apt install gitui

[extrawurst]

I am no Linux user. Need help here and please review #903 aswell

[extrawurst]

@boydjohnson mentioned interest in working on this: #903 (comment)

[extrawurst]

Does https://github.com/sassman/rust-deb-builder help anyhow?
It seems desirable to have deb files in releases (see CD.yml).

[jasonfharris]

+1 for the feature request. Actually I would say installation on all platforms should likely be as easy as a shell command. Eg starship and brew are installed via:

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://starship.rs/install.sh)"
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

If this calls through to apt or dnf or other package managers that is fine but having a simple up to date install is nice.

[WilliamTambellini]

+1

[frixaco]

As a temporary solution, here's an install script for Ubuntu (installed at /usr/local/bin):

curl -s curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/extrawurst/gitui/releases/latest | grep -wo "https.*linux.*gz" | wget -qi -
tar xzvf gitui-linux-musl.tar.gz
rm gitui-linux-musl.tar.gz
sudo chmod +x gitui
sudo mv gitui /usr/local/bin
gitui

[lonix1]

@frixaco Thank you, that works.

@extrawurst I see the docs already have entries for other distributions - maybe his script can be added there, for now (until gitui is in the ubuntu/debian package repo, or there is an official PPA).

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