binq

binq is a light-weight software installer written in Golang.
It downloads stuff querying an HTTP URL and extracts them if they are compressed.
Especially, binq makes it easy to get stuff which is not provided by any package manager but has a download URL.

Contents

The documentation contains followings:

• Installation Guide for binq binary
• Quickstart to get Items by binq command
• More Usages of binq command
• Terminology

System Requirements

Pre-built binaries are available for Windows, macOS and Linux with x86-64 CPU architecture.

binq is logically supposed to work on any machine for which Go can compile codes.

Installation

Choose one of below methods:

• Homebrew or Linuxbrew (using Tap)
• Download from GitHub releases
• go get (go command is required)

Description for each method follows.

Homebrew (Linuxbrew)

brew tap progrhyme/tap
brew install binq

Download Pre-built Binary

The following script detects your OS and downloads the latest binq binary into your current directory:

curl -s "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/binqry/binq/master/get-binq.sh" | bash

Other versions are available on GitHub Releases.

go get

Just run this:

go get github.com/binqry/binq/cmd/binq

License

The MIT License.

Copyright © 2020 IKEDA Kiyoshi

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Last update: July 20, 2020