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The devtunnel CLI installer is incompatible with Azure Linux

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Description

I run Azure Linux 3 as my remote Linux dev environment and have found that the devtunnel setup instructions are incompatible with the RPM based Azure Linux because they attempt to use apt-get for package management.

sudo apt-get -qq update -y
sudo apt-get -qq install -y libsecret-1-0

The install script should be updated to check /etc/os-release then run the following instead if ID=azurelinux

sudo tdnf install -y libsecret

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Research direction

Start by locating the Linux install script used by the linked devtunnel setup instructions and review its package-manager handling. Check /etc/os-release for Azure Linux, use tdnf install -y libsecret for that case, and verify the installer succeeds on Azure Linux 3 without changing behavior for apt-based systems.

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Assessment

Tech stack
azure, linux, shell
Domain
cli, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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