Crystal availability in Centos 9

Crystal Contrib
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Hi,
Is there any chance that Crystal may be made available for Centos 9?

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I’m using the Fedora Rawhide repo, which installed totally fine using curl -fsSL https://crystal-lang.org/install.sh | sudo bash

This is on rocky 9.

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As you can see, it is not working.

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Unfortunately, OBS where we build and host our RPM packages does not support CentOS 9. So we have no simple option to add that.

As @riffraff169 mentioned, you should be able to install the package from a different but compatible repository such as Fedora Rawhide.

You can find manual installation instructions on https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?project=devel%3Alanguages%3Acrystal&package=crystal

Or you can select a repository for the installer with the environment variable DISTRO_REPO, for example execute it with sudo DISTRO_REPO="Fedora_Rawhide" bash.

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Yes, the code doesn’t have an entry for Rocky, so it selected the repo based on the package manager:

dnf)
        DISTRO_REPO="Fedora_Rawhide"

So as you said, selecting the repo with DISTRO_REPO=“Fedora_Rawhide” should select that.
Yours selected that repo (which doesn’t exist), because of different code:

centos)
      _check_version_id
      DISTRO_REPO="CentOS_${VERSION_ID}"
      ;;

Which of course doesn’t exist.

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Thank you @straight-shoota & @riffraff169,
install via Fedora Rawhide Repo working.

dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:crystal/Fedora_Rawhide/devel:languages:crystal.repo
dnf install crystal