Apologies for not creating an issue first but it seemed like a simple docs change.
`apt install terraform` requires the `apt update` before terraform can be installed.
The HashiCorp APT server supports several distro releases that were not in this list,
leading to a false impression that they aren't supported.
Note, Ubuntu has a new release twice a year, so periodic maintenance
is needed here.
As part of this PR, just wanted to have this typo fixed to have a better sense of the sentence.
`apt-add-repository` usually automatically runs `apt update` as part of its work in order to fetch the new package indices, but if it does not, then you will need to do so manually before the packages will be available.
Also, I wanted to rephrase the sentence as below(less wording and more clarity- let me know if this is okay and I can raise a new pull request):
`apt-add-repository` usually automatically runs `apt update` as part of its work to fetch the new package indices, but if it does not, you will need to manually do so before the packages will be available.
The HashiCorp engineering services team has set up APT and Yum
repositories as alternative installation methods for various HashiCorp
products, now including Terraform.
We don't really have a great place to talk about these in our current
website structure. There is a longer-term plan to revamp the downloads
page to include other options, but we are already getting lots of
questions about how to use these repositories and so my goal here is to
publish at least a first pass of documentation, linked from the Downloads
page sidebar as a placeholder for now, so we'll have somewhere to refer to
when answering such questions.
My intent is that even once we have a revamped Downloads page that
mentions these options more clearly, we'll still need to link out to
another page to talk about various details, and so the two new URLs this
creates would be the home of that content, even if we rewrite the specific
prose here to work better in the context of the new Downloads page.
Laura Pacilio