Installation for development of eprinttools

eprinttools Command line tools, services, Golang package and Python module for working with the EPrints 3.x REST API

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/eprinttools/installer.sh | sh

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

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

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

Installing from source

Required software

• Go >= 1.24.2
• GNU Make > 3
• Pandoc > 3
• CMTools >= 0.0.23

Steps

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

git clone https://github.com/caltechlibrary/eprinttools
cd eprinttools
make
make test
make install