Update install page to remove direct download

[jennifer-shehane]

• Close Drop support for direct download of Cypress cypress#32248
• Close Remove "Direct download" installation instructions #6077
• Incorporates Update Ubuntu/Debian t64 Year 2038 Linux package choices #6246

Also some simplification of the install page.

[MikeMcC399]

Renaming this section heading according to the audience it addresses, instead of describing the contents, causes a broken anchor:

  - Broken anchor on source page path = /app/references/error-messages:
     -> linking to /app/get-started/install-cypress#pnpm-Configuration

Consider reverting to the original section heading text. If not, then the error-messages page needs changing.

[jennifer-shehane]

Resolved here: 857f14e

[MikeMcC399]

Fails to build

  Exhaustive list of all broken anchors found:
  - Broken anchor on source page path = /app/get-started/install-cypress:
     -> linking to #Install (resolved as: /app/get-started/install-cypress#Install)
  - Broken anchor on source page path = /app/references/error-messages:
     -> linking to /app/get-started/install-cypress#pnpm-Configuration

[MikeMcC399]

Instead of using "+" notation, for instance "macOS 11+" for which there is no readily available standard documentation, consider using node-semver ranges which is more flexible, is unambiguous and has documented meaning. The supported range of macOS operating systems would then be written as "macOS >=11". It also allows defining a range "macOS >=11 <=15", for instance if there were to be a need to rule out macOS 26 Tahoe, without changing the notation scheme.

In the Linux Prerequisites section, there is a need for a update (see #6246), although I can write "Ubuntu 24.04+" and hope that it will be correctly understood, where I need to write "Ubuntu below 24.04", then "Ubuntu 24.04-" doesn't do it because it's not clear whether it is "<" or "<=". In fact I need "Ubuntu <24.04" and that meaning is clear.

[jennifer-shehane]

@MikeMcC399 Yah I just want some syntax that is shorter than 'and above', so that would work also.

[jennifer-shehane]

I updated to use semver >= instead of +. This won't work for replacing 'and below' because that ends up being invalid markdown, but that's fine.

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[MikeMcC399]

@jennifer-shehane

I updated to use semver >= instead of +. This won't work for replacing 'and below' because that ends up being invalid markdown, but that's fine.

Sorry, I hadn't tested that before I suggested it. It's a problem with MDX, not the base MD Markdown. Fortunately there is a workaround using backslash as an escape character:

For Ubuntu \<=22.04 and Debian:

[MikeMcC399]

Thanks for reverting to "pnpm Configuration"! That would otherwise have needed a redirect, because the GitHub Actions repo also links to it.

You might also want to consider reverting to "Yarn Configuration" as well, just for consistency, although I don't think there is anywhere else that links to this section.

Overall the page looks much better and clearer now!

Linting would like a couple of minor tweaks for the table and an extra blank line removed that crept into the changelog.

approved by accident

[AtofStryker]

@jennifer-shehane

I updated to use semver >= instead of +. This won't work for replacing 'and below' because that ends up being invalid markdown, but that's fine.

Sorry, I hadn't tested that before I suggested it. It's a problem with MDX, not the base MD Markdown. Fortunately there is a workaround using backslash as an escape character:

For Ubuntu \<=22.04 and Debian:

hopefully nothing weird happens when you run the linter/formatter with this. I would also think the character code would be supported

[MikeMcC399]

@AtofStryker

hopefully nothing weird happens when you run the linter/formatter with this. I would also think the character code would be supported

Before I suggested this one, I did try it out, and it worked.