Proposal: One‑liner installer and native distro packages for Ring

[Youssef Saeed]

Hello Mahmoud,

What do you think about offering a single command to install Ring on all supported operating systems? Something like Rust's or Bun's installer — just a one-liner that the user copies and runs in their terminal.

A shell script for Linux/macOS and a PowerShell script for Windows could handle the entire process: it would detect the OS, install Ring without any manual steps, and even check for an existing installation to upgrade it when needed.

I'm also planning to set up a repository to host Debian/Ubuntu, Void, and Alpine packages for Ring. This way users on those distributions could install and update Ring through their native package managers. What do you think about this as well?

Both ideas should make getting started with Ring significantly smoother for everyone.

Best regards,
Youssef

[Azzeddine Remmal]

Hello Mahmoud and Youssef.

Youssef's suggestion was excellent and confirmed the possibility of a direct update.
I'm facing a problem transferring the embedded files and installed add-ons from my end on the old version to the new version.

Regards,

Azzeddine

[Bert Mariani]

Hello Mahmoud, Youssef, Azzedine

I have the same problem as Azzedine.

I have to find and re-install libraries that I was using before.

I only find out when I go run an App

Regards

Bert Mariani

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[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Youssef

>> "Both ideas should make getting started with Ring significantly smoother for everyone."

Thank you very much both of them are very useful 

You could provide them through a specific GitHub project 

Also, think about a distribution that includes your great packages like WebView, RingSlint, Bolt Framework, etc.

Since Ring have many uses cases & packages this increase the importance of have multiple distributions 

>> "I'm also planning to set up a repository to host Debian/Ubuntu, Void, and Alpine packages for Ring"

IMHO, this is the most important gap :D

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Youssef Saeed]

Hello Mahmoud,

> You could provide them through a specific GitHub project

Yes, I was thinking about that. However, what do you think about also hosting the installation script directly on the Ring website so users can copy and run it immediately?

> Also, think about a distribution that includes your great packages like WebView, RingSlint, Bolt Framework, etc.
> Since Ring have many uses cases & packages this increase the importance of have multiple distributions

Thank you for this suggestion.

Best regards,
Youssef

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Youssef

>> "Yes, I was thinking about that. However, what do you think about also hosting the installation script directly on the Ring website so users can copy and run it immediately?"

As a first step we will announce this in Ring Website - News Section as an option (Installation script, distribution packages, etc.)

Then in future Releases of Ring we could improve the download page to include 

(1) Official Files

(2) Links (Install Script +  Linux packages or names)

Greetings,

Mahmoud