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  • Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
  • Use grep to find the line containing file URL
  • Use cut and tr to extract the URL
  • Use wget to download it
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
| wget -qi -
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silverwind commented Jul 28, 2025 •
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Adding my variant for downloading and installing latest .tar.gz on Linux for oddly named package names:

curl -fsSL "$(curl -fsSL https://api.github.com/repos/aquasecurity/trivy/releases/latest | jq -r '.assets[] | select(.name? | match("tar.gz$")) | .browser_download_url' | grep Linux-$([[ $(uname -m) = "aarch64" ]] && echo "ARM64" || echo "64bit"))" | tar -xz -C /usr/local/bin --

A better solution can only come if GitHub allows to specify variants like OS, architecture etc. as part of the release asset upload process.

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