Installing without browser experience is not great...

[penberg]

Installing to /home/penberg/.turso

Turso CLI installed!

If you are a new user, you can sign up with turso auth signup.

If you already have an account, please login with turso auth login.

/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 881: www-browser: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 881: links2: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 881: elinks: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 881: links: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 881: lynx: command not found
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 881: w3m: command not found
xdg-open: no method available for opening 'https://api.turso.tech/signup?port=33341&redirect=true'
error: Unable to open browser.
Visit this URL on this device to log in:
https://api.turso.tech/signup?port=33341&redirect=true
Waiting for authentication...

[hrutik7]

any update on this !

[haaawk]

What is the expected experience when a user has no browser?

[tindecken]

is there any workarround on it?

[hrutik7]

use turso cli commands and if you are windows use wsl 22.x version

[GV14982]

While it's not ideal, they have this in their docs: https://docs.turso.tech/reference/turso-cli#running-remotely

[armandabric]

The issue is that the turso auth signup is always run at the end of the install script. Even with a TURSO_API_TOKEN environment variable it's triggered.

turso-install/install.sh

Lines 154 to 158 in a154864

	printf "\nTurso CLI installed!\n\n"
	printf "If you are a new user, you can sign up with ${bright_blue}turso auth signup${reset}.\n\n"
	printf "If you already have an account, please login with ${bright_blue}turso auth login${reset}.\n\n"
	$INSTALL_DIRECTORY/turso auth signup

Given that the signup/login instruction are printed at the end of the installation, could we consider to remove the auto signup?

Right now I'm stuck, I was looking to install the turso CLI on github actions to create database for each PR.

[teneburu]

This problem got me as well.

[penberg]

The following pull request should improve the experience a bit once we roll out a new CLI release. tursodatabase/turso-cli#737. I think what we could do is implement a turso auth whoami command and use that to skip the turso auth signup step in the script if we're logged in.

[penberg]

@armandabric There's now a TURSO_INSTALL_SKIP_SIGNUP environment variable that you can use to make the script skip the sign up part. Let us know if it works for your use case.