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The Universal Binary Installer

5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2023-05-20 · latest 2025-10-22

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  1. Isn't UBI (The Universal Binary Installer) [0] the newer thing? [0]: https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi
    comment by nikolay · 2025-10-22 · in Eget: Easy pre-built binary installation from GitHub
  2. …(which is always the best reason to make something), does it have any differentiators from Ubi? [0] https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi
    comment by drcongo · 2025-05-19 · in Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS
  3. ubi https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi is the one I know, as it is available in mise https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/backends/ubi.html
    comment by drewbitt · 2024-12-11 · in Gah – CLI to install software from GitHub Releases
  4. https://github.com/houseabsolute/ubi does a nice job of fetching binaries from GitHub. Just give it a repo and a location to place the binary. ubi --project oalders/is --in ~/local/bin
    comment by oalders · 2024-09-10 · in PSA: Eget That Executable from GitHub
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    story by oalders · 2023-05-20 · 0 comments