Make an Ubuntu package or publish up-to-date PPA repo

[wkoszek]

Feature request: Ubuntu package

After fresh AWS install I just want to do:

apt install acme.sh

Not having acme.sh in Ubuntu package repository complicates my Ansible playbooks. Separate PPA would be OK too. Additional argument: acme.sh package could depend on socat which would smoothen installation even more.

How much work would it be to add a script to release new versions of acme.sh to the PPA repository?

[FernandoMiguel]

Install is a simple curl.
Is that not OK?

[Qvinticom]

Try acmesh-official/get.acme.sh#3 (comment)

[wkoszek]

@Qvinticom Yeah, this is one example. And all sorts of stuff like this. With Ansible

@FernandoMiguel The curl is a little bit of a ... workaround. For everything I have all software packages installed through the official Ubuntu mechanism in scripts/automation, and then I have to do some hacks to be able to pull acme.sh correctly. It works, but it's not very convenient.

Ubuntu doesn't seem to have a decent Acme client right now, and having acme.sh in a packages would make it win over other competitors.

[Neilpang]

I remember there is someone packaged acme.sh for ubuntu PPA, please search for it.

However, acme.sh was born to live without root. That means any non-privileged user can install and use acme.sh on the machine. It's more flexible.