Hey guys. I'll be away for a while. Some virus hit me really bad.
You'll know when I recover once I write another msg. I can barely type rn c u

PS!: Other members of the group might be able to help you still. Thank you

Hi guys, feeling a lot better now :)
Thanks for the kind messages.

I have a couple of announcements to make:
First, ishare2 GUI is confirmed to only work on Ubuntu 20.04 due to Python 3.11 not being able to be installed on prior versions of Ubuntu. I have plans port it to another tech stack.

On other news, we still have some images pending to be pushed to the repositories, that's expected to be done in the coming days.
#LabHubUpdates

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Update to UNETLAB II
I had this update pending since exactly 2 months ago. I've been kinda busy finishing my last couple months of college + work so yeah not much time left, sorry about that.
Here's the list of new files. Expect them to be available via ishare2 in the following days.

/
├── Extreme VOSS
│   ├── extremevoss-8.8.0.0.tgz
│   └── extremevoss.yml
├── Juniper SDWAN 128T
│   └── 128T-522.tgz
├── bigip-17.1.0.2-0.0.2.tgz
├── c8000v-17.11.01a.tgz
├── c9800cl-17.11.01a.tgz
├── dellos10-10.5.5.5.105.tgz
├── fortinet-FAZ-v7.0.8-build0452.tgz
├── fortinet-FGT-v7.0.12.M-build0523.tgz
├── fortinet-FMG-v7.0.8-build0452.tgz
├── fortinet-FNDR-v7.2-build0404.tgz
├── fortinet-FWB-v700-build0151.tgz
├── h3cvsr1k-7.1.064-R1362P12.tgz
├── hillstone-sg6000-CloudEdge-5.5R10P2-v6.tgz
├── hillstone-sg6000-VW-5.5R8-3.3-v6.tgz
├── hillstone-sg6000-vADC-5.5R8-3.4-v6.tgz
├── hillstone-sg6000-vIPS-5.5R8-4.5.6-v6.tgz
├── jspace-23.1R1.4.tgz
├── junipervrr-23.2R1.13.tgz
├── nsvpx-13.1-48.47.tgz
├── ocnos-6.3.0-126.tgz
├── paloalto-10.2.5-Pre-Licensed-Eval.tgz
├── pfsense-pfs-2.7.0.tgz
├── vmxvfp-23.2R1.13-domestic-VFP.tgz
├── vsrx30-23.2R1.13.tgz
├── vsrxng-23.2R1.13.tgz
└── xrv9k-fullk9-7.9.1.tgz

2 directories, 27 files

⚠️ Hey everyone, very important announcement! ⚠️
If you're using ishare2 to download your images run: ishare2 update to update the sources files!
A change has been made to UNETLAB II. The qemu and iol folders have been moved inside a parent folder "addons" following the convention of UNETLAB I.

I am working on automating the indexing of the images in the repositories and I'm having good results so far. The way we did it before was manually typing the file names on a spreadsheet. We owe most of that manual job to Mati but since there's 1000's of files to download the task has become unmaintainable and unreliable. You might see some index*.json files scatter around the repositories as well as some index.py files which will be used for indexing from now on.

Spoiler alert of what I'm working on:
I am also working on a new nodejs based CLI tool and Next.js GUI

I'm using these technologies both to practice (I'm starting a job using those technologies) and to improve ishare2's functionality both for the user and maintainers (for now it's just me and I'm most of the times busy).

Sorry for any inconvenience the update might've caused!

Hey guys
Yesterday I pushed a faulty update for ishare2 but it is now fixed.
If you encountered this error in the last couple hours, it should be gone now.

By the way yesterday's update was related to SSL certficate checks in downloads.
You might've found that Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't always have the latest CA Certs installed (sometimes even after running an apt upgrade).

So now there's a new config in ishare2 that let's you skip those checks.
By default SSL checks are enabled but if you're having trouble downloading something, try disabling these checks and the error might be gone.

Let me know if you find any more bugs...

Yet another issue happened today 😅
The sources.list file was using an outdated link to a repository that is now deprecated.
An updated sources file was just pushed, to get the newer version first remove the old one:

rm /opt/ishare2/cli/sources.list

After that, run: ishare2 update

The bash version of ishare2 is being modified to use JSON files for retrieving file indexes, the alpha version is already available and I might need testers later. Let me know if you want to try it out.

Hi everyone
I almost finished getting the ishare2 bash script to work with JSON data.
Image downloading should work fine.
Most stuff is done, only missing the auto fix for bad names (for typos or different naming conventions).

Could anyone please help me test it? 🙏
You can always rollback to the "stable version" later.

To install the alpha version use this command:

wget -O /usr/sbin/ishare2 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ishare2-org/ishare2-cli/alpha/ishare2 && chmod +x /usr/sbin/ishare2 && ishare2

I tested it on my end too of course but it's always better if tested on different environments.

Please report back any issues you might find

Hello everyone
I'm aware that we're hitting a quota limit on Google drive
I already switched the indexes to map the OneDrive mirror
If you have any issues run: ishare2 update to update the sources files

I see a spike of traffic from today so that could be why we hit Google Drive's quota limit. I'll try a workaround later but remember you can always use an alternative mirror when this happens

Hello everyone!

I know a lot of you already use and have contributed labs to PNetLab's store, but I've had requests (and thought about it myself) to implement a "pull labs" feature on ishare2.
This feature would have lab packages or individual labs for different purposes like CCNA preparation, etc. This would make labs available by executing a single command.
So if you guys are interested in contributing some, I'll create a new "Labs" section in LabHub specifically for labs once we have enough contributions :D

Happy learning!

The alpha version of ishare2 is over 1000 lines less of code (32 KB less than previous versions) after optimizations 😵‍💫

JSON has definitely is been much easier to work with :)

I also refactored a lot of old code which was too repetitive and I had never touched since back when it was first released

Today I finished fixing the "ishare2 pull [TYPE] all" command, we're almost ready to release it to the main branch so I would appreciate any feedback you have on this major update 😃

New logo by Qirkl thanks a lot! 🙏

Hello!
This idea hasn't been dropped, I've just been busy but here's a provisional form to upload the labs if you want to share any:
https://forms.gle/gaFbFJmVBfmfGUit5

Please give credit to the lab's author (if you know it) to keep a friendly community :)
After we gather enough labs ishare2 pull labs can be implemented with some more features coming in the future, like:
ishare2 pull labs from : this command will allow you to pull labs from a direct download link and possibly other hosts like Google Drive public links