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Support shellcheck 0.4.4+ on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial

Asked by Conor Sheehan

Could you add ubuntu 16.04 xenial support to one of the 0.4.4+ builds of shellcheck?
I'd really appreciate it because I'd like to use the disable per file feature added in 0.4.4
https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/wiki/Ignore#ignoring-all-instances-in-a-file-044

The latest release that supports ubuntu 16.04 xenial is shellcheck 0.3.7-5
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shellcheck/0.3.7-5
The next shellcheck version (0.4.6-1) lowest supported ubuntu version is 17.10 artful.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shellcheck/0.4.6-1

I installed the precompiled binary (currently 0.6.0) from here for now:
https://storage.googleapis.com/shellcheck/shellcheck-stable.linux.x86_64.tar.xz
but I'd rather let apt manage the package than adding it to my path and manually updating it.

Thanks in advance :)

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Manfred Hampl suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #3037: “no rolling release”.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

There are PPAs available with higher versions of shellcheck for Ubuntu xenial.
Maybe one of these can be used to solve your problem.

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Conor Sheehan (conorsheehan1) said : 		#3

All I'm seeing is this one, got any links to alternative PPAs?
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+search?text=shellcheck

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

The search page that you opened shows the packages named "shellsheck" in the official Ubuntu repositories.
For a listing os PPAs with shellcheck proceed as follows:

Open the package page for shellcheck from the search page that you already opened, this leads to
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shellcheck
And on that page scroll to the very end, to the text "Other versions of 'shellcheck' in untrusted archives."
There you see a sample of three links to PPAs, and another link to the PPA search page for shellcheck ("other untrusted versions of 'shellcheck'.")
Select one of these four links to proceed.

Or:
open the main page for Ubuntu on Launchpad https://launchpad.net/ubuntu and use the link on the top right part "Personal Package Archives", leading to
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas

Fill in the search text and you get
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=shellcheck

There are 8 PPAs shown which match the search criteria.
E.g. GHC 8.0.2 https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/ghc-8.0.2 offers shellcheck 0.4.6-1 for xenial.
Open the link to that PPA for instructions how to activate it.

Remark: The standard disclaimer for the reduced trustworthiness of PPAs (compared to the standard Ubuntu repositories) applies of course.

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Conor Sheehan (conorsheehan1) said : 		#5

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.