Publish `microcks` to `apt-get` package manager for installation on linux/debian based systems

[Harsh4902]

Reason/Context

• We can publish binary of our CLI tool to apt-get package manager for easy installation on linux/debian based systems.

Description

• Currently, we are serving binaries from our releases and installing it using curl.
• This thing can be enhanced for linux/debian based system by publishing it to the apt-get package manager.

Implementation ideas

No response

[Alokzh]

Hello @Harsh4902 !
I think there is 2 step involved i.e Generating .deb packages & then hosting .deb packages so users can run sudo apt install microcks-cli. I just wanted to ask should I work on generating .deb packages which would allow users to install with something like this command sudo dpkg -i microcks-cli_version_linux_amd64.deb.
I am not 100% sure about how to publish to package managers

Please correct me if I am missing something or do not understand the issue

[Harsh4902]

@Alokzh Yes, you are right. But here, generating a .deb package is not a headache. We want to publish it so people can directly install it using apt install command.

[Alokzh]

Totally makes sense @Harsh4902
Since I'm quite new to this, also I have my GSoC Project so I'll not waste your time
This seems to be interesting one so I'll definitely try to read more about it

[Harsh4902]

@Alokzh Okay, no problem.

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