Installers

Most of our Golang software can be installed easily on Linux, macOS and Windows from the command line. For macOS and Linux you open a “terminal” and use the curl command. For Windows you open a Powershell and use it’s commands to perform a similar role. Here’s an example of the commands for datatools.

Installing datatools on Linux or macOS using first open the Terminal application so you can execute comand line programs. Then use curl to install datatools.

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

On Windows you open Powershell either directly or via Window’s Terminal application. Then use the Powershell commands irm and iex to retrieve and execute the Powershell install script.

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

If you have problems with the installer you should report the issue to the respective issure tracker for the repositories.