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Installation

rss2 is a collection of command line programs run from a shell like Bash.

Compiled version

This is generalized instructions for a release.

Compiled versions are available for Mac OS X (amd64 processor, macosx-amd64), Linux (amd64 process, linux-amd64), Windows (amd64 processor, windows-amd64) and Rapsberry Pi (arm7 processor, raspbian-arm7)

VERSION_NUMBER is a symantic version number (e.g. v0.1.2)

For all the released version go to the project page on Github and click latest release

https://github.com/caltechlibrary/rss2/releases/latest

Platform Zip Filename
Windows rss2-VERSION_NUMBER-windows-amd64.zip
Mac OS X rss2-VERSION_NUMBER-macosx-amd64.zip
Linux/Intel rss2-VERSION_NUMBER-linux-amd64.zip
Raspbery Pi rss2-VERSION_NUMBER-raspbian-arm7.zip

The basic recipe

Mac OS X

  1. Download the zip file
  2. Unzip the zip file
  3. Copy the executables to $HOME/bin (or a folder in your path)
  4. Make sure the new location in in our path
  5. Test

Here’s an example of the commands run in the Terminal App after downloading the zip file.

    cd Downloads/
    unzip rss2-*-macosx-amd64.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    csvfind -version

Windows

  1. Download the zip file
  2. Unzip the zip file
  3. Copy the executables to $HOME/bin (or a folder in your path)
  4. Test

Here’s an example of the commands run in from the Bash shell on Windows 10 after downloading the zip file.

    cd Downloads/
    unzip rss2-*-windows-amd64.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    csvfind -version

Linux

  1. Download the zip file
  2. Unzip the zip file
  3. Copy the executables to $HOME/bin (or a folder in your path)
  4. Test

Here’s an example of the commands run in from the Bash shell after downloading the zip file.

    cd Downloads/
    unzip rss2-*-linux-amd64.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    csvfind -version

Raspberry Pi

Released version is for a Raspberry Pi 2 or later use (i.e. requires ARM 7 support).

  1. Download the zip file
  2. Unzip the zip file
  3. Copy the executables to $HOME/bin (or a folder in your path)
  4. Test

Here’s an example of the commands run in from the Bash shell after downloading the zip file.

    cd Downloads/
    unzip rss2-*-raspbian-arm7.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    csvfind -version

Compiling from source

rss2 is “go gettable”. Use the “go get” command to download the dependant packages as well as rss2’s source code.

    go get -u github.com/caltechlibrary/rss2/...

Or clone the repstory and then compile

    cd
    git clone https://github.com/caltechlibrary/rss2 src/github.com/caltechlibrary/rss2
    cd src/github.com/caltechlibrary/rss2
    make
    make test
    make install