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Check if 'Manually-Installed and Source-Compiled' (MISC) packages have new releases or updates announced on their respective webpages.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2021-03-03 · latest 2023-02-22

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  1. …compile from source now, and have my own system for detecting updates which works pretty well. ( https://github.com/tpapastylianou/misc-updater if anyone's interested).
    comment by tpoacher · 2023-02-22 · in Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak
  2. …script for managing "MISC" packages, which stands for "Manually Installed or Source Compiled". https://github.com/tpapastylianou/misc-updater In full honesty, I'm as proud of the "MISC" acronym as of the script itself. :p I'm secretly…
    comment by tpoacher · 2022-08-15 · in Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?
  3. …source instead of relying on their distro's repositories? I made this for myself for this purpose: https://github.com/tpapastylianou/misc-updater (pretty chuffed about the MISC acronym btw :p )
  4. …has solved a big problem for me, of helping me keep such "misc" items seamlessly up-to-date. [0]: https://github.com/tpapastylianou/misc-updater
    comment by tpoacher · 2021-05-13 · in A Way to Manage Dotfiles
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    Updater for Manually-Installed and Source-Compiled (Misc) Packages
    story by tpoacher · 2021-03-03 · 1 comment