Automatically installing the latest Quarto version

Question

I use a Quarto script to render my blog in Python. Quarto frequently updates, and I want to automatically install the latest version so I can have a script that automatically updates Quarto before rendering my blog.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

This is another example leveraging latest github release and gh CLI

gh --repo quarto-dev/quarto-cli release download --pattern '*.deb'
sudo dpkg -i $(ls quarto-*.deb)
rm $(ls quarto-*.deb)

This could be adapted to any repo with Github release.

Using _download.json is the safest though, especially when stable release of Quarto will be out.