embark on 24.04 LTS

[ognz]

Hello all, and thank you for this amazing project!

I had embark running on Ubuntu 22.04LTS without problems about a year ago.
I noticed that emba is supported and works for me in 24.04LTS; embark is/does not, out of the box, currently (apt updates from Jan 17, 2025).
I have it working on my machine now, and I will retrace my steps on a fresh checkout to document the hoops I had to jump through.
Some of the changes I had to make include manually creating a venv, changing version numbers of installation candidates, etc.

I would like to submit my fixes - what is the preferred way of doing so? As in, :

1. I see in Contributing.md that "the code has to work on the latest Ubuntu", but there is a chance, especially between 24.04 and 22.04, that things will break for the earlier one. Should I figure out where I'm running (22/24/kali) and branch accordingly, or should I leave those on 22 to fend for themselves?
2. And of course, does "support installation on Ubuntu 24.04LTS" count as one separable fix? 0:-)
3. Finally, all my fixes are on regular embark. Will it make sense to double check against the -Dev version, or is Dev more geared towards firmware-related functionality after a successful installation?
4. Post-Scriptum: is there a way to put the installer into verbose mode, or to debug it more elegantly than with set -x statements?

Cheers!

[BenediktMKuehne]

Hey,

we have a STRICT_MODE=0 in line 18 of the installer, that can help a bit.

I would have assumed the changes would be limited to the dependency installations - meaning the install_debs() and install_embark_dev().
I might be wrong there though.

From our point of view it's usually best if we do something like this:
if grep -q "PRETTY_NAME=\"Ubuntu 20.04 LTS\"" /etc/os-release 2>/dev/null ; then
install_different_apt_package
fi
so we can keep everything working for the previous OS version

The developer installation is it's own installation-setup and works a bit differently. (also has some further required packages)

Would appreciate any input (maybe PR) on this! Has been on the backlog for some time

TY

[BenediktMKuehne]

ubuntu 24 support is on the way with #235