Update distrobox to 1.8.2

Bazzite
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Hi,

There is a small bug fix in the latest distrobox which would help me. Is there a way to update to this version or must I wait for the next bazzite release?

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You can always install distrobox in your HOME dir - ~/.local/bin as long as that dir is before /usr/sbin in your PATH.

You can install it there using the following command documented at https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/89luca89/distrobox/main/install | sh -s -- --prefix ~/.local

Also note that you can also usually install distrobox with brew, but I see that it is still at 1.8.1.2 in brew (after brew update).

Note that distrobox and family are just text files (bash scripts).

To verify the version on your PATH:

$ distrobox version
distrobox: 1.8.1.2

or

$ grep -E '^version=' $(which distrobox)
version="1.8.1.2"

To verify that the OS version has been updated:

$ /usr/sbin/distrobox version
distrobox: 1.8.2.1

or

$ grep -E '^version=' /usr/sbin/distrobox
version="1.8.2.1"

Hope that helps some!

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Thanks! I noticed that it will be released in the next update so I will wait until then or try this in the mean time.

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