Cool. Where/How might one obtain said "Language specific installer"?

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Thanks,
Alexander

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On Mon, Dec 9, 2024, 07:39 Austin Godber via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> For languages that evolve far faster than the OS releases (especially
> Debian) I'd suggest using the language specific installer rather than a
> Debian PPA.  They tend to be better embraced by the language community.
>
> Examples:
>
> * Python
>   * pyenv
>   * uv
> * NodeJS
>   * nvm
> * Ruby
>   * rvm
>
> - Austin
>
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 2:05 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Have I mentioned how much I vastly dislike Debian?!
>>
>> I think so .... but anyhoo ...
>>
>> I can't seem to install this PPA repository.
>>
>> I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4 with "Raspberry Pi OS" (formerly Raspian) --
>> which is secretly Debian Bookwork (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) under the covers.
>>
>> I'm trying to install Python3.12 and (apparently) it's not included in
>> the main OS repositories by default, so after a bunch of Googling, I found
>> I need a 3rd party repo called "Dead Snakes" (*because that sounds
>> trustworthy*) ... and while the command "apt-add-repository" failed on a
>> python error, I was able to add the line manually in
>> "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/deadsnakes.list" --- but then I get an error about
>> the key missing ...
>>
>> =====================
>> --> apt update
>> Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
>> Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
>> Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
>> Hit:4 http://archive.raspberrypi.com/debian bookworm InRelease
>> Get:5 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu jammy
>> InRelease [18.1 kB]
>> Err:5 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu jammy
>> InRelease
>>   The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is
>> not available: NO_PUBKEY BA6932366A755776
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> W: GPG error: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu
>> jammy InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the
>> public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY BA6932366A755776
>> E: The repository 'https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu
>> jammy InRelease' is not signed.
>> N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is
>> therefore disabled by default.
>> N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user
>> configuration details.
>> ===========================
>>
>> This is the repo URL:
>> https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu/dists/jammy/
>>
>> and on that page, I see a GPG file, which I tried (*probably incorrectly*)
>> to install:
>>
>> curl -fsSL
>> https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu/dists/jammy/Release.gpg
>> | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/deadsnakes.gpg
>>
>> but then when I do "apt update" I get the error shown above.
>>
>> This is infinitely easier on RedHat ... just sayin'
>>
>> Anyhoo -- I appreciate the help on this.  I would prefer to not compile
>> Python from source on a Raspberry Pi, as that takes over an hour to do.
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>> Alex.
>>
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