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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/04/2013 07:41 AM, Michael Spencer wrote:
> On 11/4/13, 6:15 AM, James Tait wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> During the course of developing, testing and supporting the various
>> components of the Click App Store, I've had cause on numerous
>> occasions to verify that a Click Package is downloadable.  Obviously
>> we can do this using a handset, but sometimes, for whatever reason,
>> this isn't possible.  But Click downloads require an OAuth-signed
>> request, and it's a pain having to set this up every time.
>>
>> To aid in this, I hacked together a little script so that I can very
>> easily download Click Packages from the command line on my dev
>> machine.  It takes care of the SSO login and the OAuth stuff, and
>> saves your details in a read-only file in your XDG config directory
>> (~/.config by default) so subsequent runs only need your e-mail
>> address and a package name.  The downloaded file will be saved in your
>> home directory.
>>
>> It currently makes an assumption about where to find the package
>> details, and isn't tested or particularly well structured, but I
>> thought it might already be useful for others, so I dropped it on
>> Launchpad[0].  As time allows I hope to scrub it up a bit and add
>> other scripts that I find myself using frequently.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> JT
> 
> Thanks for publishing this, it looks like it will be useful for my app that I am
> writing to view and install Click apps from the app store.
> 
Note, application confinement blocks access to installing click apps by other
click apps. This would of course work fine if you only use this app privately or
integrate it into the Ubuntu image (and therefore it is unconfined).


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