Updating version under linux very manual

[R-i-c-h-B]

• Azure Data Studio Version: 1
  Linux Fedora.

This request is about maintenance under linux in a corporate environment.
Currently it seems we need to check against the downloads page to look for updates, download the rpm then install it.
If I have 20 or 30 db team members all doing the same thing, that's a quite large amount of bandwidth and time associated with the updates.
We have a corporate updates repository, which happily syncs the yum repos from https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/ and enables more automated updates with minimal downloads.

Is there a plan to add azuredatastudio to this, in the same way that vscode is already enabled there?

Cheers

[kburtram]

@R-i-c-h-B we're planning to on-board Azure Data Studio onto the official MS package repos for RPM and DEB files. Mostly we've been waiting for the community to ask (thanks! 😄) and then figure out when to schedule it. Our next acquisition task is to support per-user setup on Windows, and then improving the Linux acquisition experience would likely come after that. Hopefully we can have something available for the Dec. or Jan release.

[R-i-c-h-B]

So that's how it works... OK :)

Look forward to it.

R

[lucasyvas]

Looking forward to this too. The very regular releases make it even trickier to stay on top of it - I'm sure I could write a script to check and update for now!

If this ever gets the vscode style auto changelogs to accompany it that would make a pretty nice experience.

[spoonerandrew]

Adding my vote to this as well. Similar process to VSCode would make this a smoother install/upgrade process.

[tappoz]

Hoping to see this as well. I am waiting for the Debian/Ubuntu repository.

Trying to figure out the deb package filename from the URL redirection when automating this installation using something like wget --content-disposition https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2038405 is not as handy as I hoped.

Thanks

[mdx0111]

Looking forward to see this happening sooner.

Thanks for this great product.

[oappelt]

This seems to be about a year overdue.
Any actual plans to get this done? This has been working fine for VSCode for years.

[kburtram]

@oappelt we were discussing this a couple days ago. We plan to have the DEB and RPM published into the MS repos within the next couple releases.

[mdx0111]

@kburtram Hi Karl,
I was wondering to ask if you have made any progress on this please.

Many many thanks. :)

[jaapie]

Hello. Are there any updates? Updating on Ubuntu is moderatley painful without package repo support. Having said that I love ADS!

[jaapie]

While we wait for this to be implemented, I created a script that uses curl, and hxnormailze and hxselect from the html-xml-utils library to get the download link from the ADS download page, wget to download the .deb and dpkg to install it. You can find it in a gist here. Works on Ubuntu right now because that's what I am using.

[craigs100]

Similar to this, still not fixed?
#21507

[jaapie]

No this issue is relating to the fact that ADS is not able to be updated through a package manager, similar to the way VSCode is. It's much easier to update.

[craigs100]

Exactly, you have to manually update it. If it was done how VSCode is done, it would be great. Don't people talk to each other in MS? ;)