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| author | Tristan Sloughter <t@crashfast.com> | 2016-01-17 16:59:43 -0600 |
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| committer | Tristan Sloughter <t@crashfast.com> | 2016-01-17 17:00:21 -0600 |
| commit | c9213a08be158337f4ec13452821033d915b04e6 (patch) | |
| tree | bb34be3b224574515618fa1cf7f6a3d46c802dde | |
| parent | 505576cb6ab3abaad2706e5641b19b13d8114156 (diff) | |
add unstable install/upgrade instructions to readme
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 12 |
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@@ -71,6 +71,18 @@ $ ./bootstrap Stable versions can be obtained from the [releases page](https://github.com/rebar/rebar3/releases). +The rebar3 escript can also extract itself with a run script under the user's home directory: + +```bash +$ ./rebar3 unstable install +===> Extracting rebar3 libs to ~/.cache/rebar3/lib... +===> Writing rebar3 run script ~/.cache/rebar3/bin/rebar3... +===> Add to $PATH for use: export PATH=$PATH:~/.cache/rebar3/bin +``` + +To keep it up to date after you've installed rebar3 this way you can use `rebar3 unstable upgrade` which +fetches the latest nightly and extracts to the same place as above. + Rebar3 may also be available on various OS-specific package managers such as FreeBSD Ports. Those are maintained by the community and Rebar3 maintainers themselves are generally not involved in that process. |