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Installation for development of articlefetch

articlefetch A client that will submit an search to an RDM instance and retrieve the articles in the results.

Quick install with curl or irm

There is an experimental installer.sh script that can be run with the following command to install latest table release. This may work for macOS, Linux and if you’re using Windows with the Unix subsystem. This would be run from your shell (e.g. Terminal on macOS).

curl https://caltechlibrary.github.io/articlefetch/installer.sh | sh

This will install the programs included in articlefetch in your $HOME/bin directory.

If you are running Windows 10 or 11 use the Powershell command below.

irm https://caltechlibrary.github.io/articlefetch/installer.ps1 | iex

If your are running macOS or Windows

You may get security warnings if you are using macOS or Windows. See the notes for the specific operating system you’re using to fix issues.

Installing from source

Required software

Steps

  1. git clone https://github.com/caltechlibrary/articlefetch
  2. Change directory into the articlefetch directory
  3. Make to build, test and install
git clone https://github.com/caltechlibrary/articlefetch
cd articlefetch
make
make test
make install