Updates needed for the "Image Builder" page?

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Should the 'Prerequisites' section now include options for newer releases of *buntu?
For example:
python3-distutils is not available in Kubuntu 24.04, but it does have python3-setuptools (As listed in the page "Build system setup".)

Also, the 'openwrt-imagebuilder-' files are now named '.tar.zst'

So for the "Unpack the archive and change the working directory:", should the instructions read:

tar -zstd -x -f openwrt-imagebuilder-*.tar.zst

Regards,
Alistair

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You have to figure out simple things using likes of google from popos and below.

Compression parameter is superfluous, gnu tar detects compression on the spot.

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I can confirm this (on Fedora 40).
Assuming zstd is installed...
tar xvf openwrt-imagebuilder-ath79-generic.Linux-x86_64.tar.zst does the trick.

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tar -xf openwrt-imagebuilder-*.tar.* works for both .zst and .xz

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I can do one more:

wget -q --show-progress --progress=bar:force -O- ${IMAGE_BUILDER} \
    | tar --zstd -x --strip-components=1 -C imagebuilder
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Using unp and never think about how to unpack a archive ever again