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fix: install keybase binary directly from deb to bypass unresolvable GUI dependencies on Ubuntu 24.04+ #131

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fix: install keybase binary from deb without GUI dependencies on Ubun…
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fix: stream only keybase binary from deb to avoid disk exhaustion on …
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chore: bump keybase.io feature version to 1.1.0
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion src/keybase.io/devcontainer-feature.json
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{
"name": "keybase.io",
"id": "keybase.io",
"version": "1.0.0",
"version": "1.1.0",
"description": "Install \"keybase\" binary",
"documentationURL": "https://github.com/devcontainer-community/devcontainer-features/tree/main/src/keybase.io",
"options": {
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8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion src/keybase.io/install.sh
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local deb_file="keybase_${arch_suffix}.deb"
curl -fsSL "https://prerelease.keybase.io/${deb_file}" -o "/tmp/${deb_file}"
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y "/tmp/${deb_file}"
# Stream only the keybase CLI binary out of the deb's embedded tar, discarding
# the large Electron GUI app (/opt/keybase/Keybase) so the container does not
# run out of disk space. This also bypasses the unresolvable GUI package
# dependencies (fuse, libasound2, libgtk-3-0, …) on Ubuntu 24.04+.
dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile "/tmp/${deb_file}" \
| tar -xO ./usr/bin/keybase \
| install -m 0755 /dev/stdin /usr/local/bin/keybase
rm "/tmp/${deb_file}"
apt_get_cleanup
}
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