Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos? - users

RE: Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos?

einar.hjortdal — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:58:09 +0000

Edge is actually available as rpm here, however I do not like how it is packaged.

RE: Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos?

Silvan — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:02:16 +0000

Additionaly, code can be installed by following the same instructions for RPM based distributions on this page . A Microsoft dnf repository is set and will provide the updates, this is the way Skype could be used until it was dismissed.

sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
echo -e "nname=Visual Studio Codenbaseurl=https://packages.microsoft.com/yumrepos/vscodenenabled=1nautorefresh=1ntype=rpm-mdngpgcheck=1ngpgkey=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc" | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/vscode.repo > /dev/null
sudo dnf install code


You may need to remove visual-studio-code-bin before to avoid conflicts.

Edge is currently only distributed in .deb format so the above mechanism is not applicable.

RE: Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos?

Silvan — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:39:40 +0000

openmamba has already a project called netsrpms which provides support for local download and RPM packaging of components which cannot be distributed. Adding support for vscode and edge is now in my TODO list.

RE: Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos?

einar.hjortdal — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:16:45 +0000

Then maybe writing a script that downlaods the binary on the user's system is the correct thing to do for both vscode and edge

RE: Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos?

Silvan — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:29:27 +0000

By doing a quick check the license might not allow binary distribution of vscode either, although other official sources like this page seem to be permissive when citing some distributions. While I need to do further checks when I have time I have removed the visual-studio-package from openmamba repository as a precaution.

RE: Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos?

einar.hjortdal — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:52:16 +0000

Actually, isn't redistribution of vscode also not allowed by their license? I'll check out how vscode's package works

RE: Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos?

einar.hjortdal — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:52:28 +0000

I’ve checked but the license does not allow to redistribute Microsoft Edge binaries in a public repository. By the way it might be provided as an openmamba installable component from network, a specific mechanism which locally downloads the upstream archive and creates the RPM. However this requires some more effort than simply creating the package for the repository so I will evaluate doing this work when possible.

I don't think it's worth it at that point. I could whip up a script instead

RE: Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos?

Silvan — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:59:04 +0000

I've checked but the license does not allow to redistribute Microsoft Edge binaries in a public repository. By the way it might be provided as an openmamba installable component from network, a specific mechanism which locally downloads the upstream archive and creates the RPM. However this requires some more effort than simply creating the package for the repository so I will evaluate doing this work when possible. The process of updating packages is managed by a chain of openmamba specific tools called autospec, autodist and webbuild which are today provided in a ready-to-use docker environment with the openmamba-docker-buildvm project. This project provides a web interface and scripts that are periodically run to do batch operations like checking for packages to be updated, build them and release to a repository.

Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos?

einar.hjortdal — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:39:55 +0000

Would it be possible to add Microsoft Edge stable to the repos? There is a deb repository here and a rpm repository here Currently I download the deb package manually, extract it and move the data directory in my ~/.local/lib64 directory and add a symlink in ~/.local/bin I'm not sure how the entire openmamba infra works but, given there is only one maintainer and hundreds of packages, I imagine you have some script to fetch updates from existing repos and build packages from them. I am curious on how that works.