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The devtunnel CLI installer is incompatible with Azure Linux

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
52/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
azure, linux, shell

Research direction

Start by locating the Linux install script used by the linked devtunnel setup instructions and review its package-manager handling. Check /etc/os-release for Azure Linux, use tdnf install -y libsecret for that case, and verify the installer succeeds on Azure Linux 3 without changing behavior for apt-based systems.

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Description

I run Azure Linux 3 as my remote Linux dev environment and have found that the devtunnel setup instructions are incompatible with the RPM based Azure Linux because they attempt to use apt-get for package management.

sudo apt-get -qq update -y
sudo apt-get -qq install -y libsecret-1-0

The install script should be updated to check /etc/os-release then run the following instead if ID=azurelinux

sudo tdnf install -y libsecret
Dominant language
C#
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Forks
53
Avg merge
1h 52m
Merged PRs (30d)
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