Install Xaden

Get Xaden onto your machine and run it as one command, xaden, from any folder. Xaden lives in one folder; the command is a link to it.

Before you start

You have the requirements: git, bash and the other standard tools, on Linux or macOS (Windows: WSL).

Install with git (recommended)

git clone https://github.com/flo1o1/xaden-dev.git ~/.xaden
~/.xaden/scripts/install.sh

git clone ...: downloads Xaden into the hidden folder .xaden in your home directory. Keep that folder where it is, because the xaden command runs from it.
~/.xaden/scripts/install.sh: creates one link, ~/.local/bin/xaden, that points into that folder. It changes nothing else and never replaces a different file of that name.

If ~/.local/bin is not on your PATH, the installer says so. Add this line to your shell profile (~/.bashrc for bash, ~/.zshrc for zsh) and open a new terminal:

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

export PATH=...: puts ~/.local/bin in front of the folders your shell searches for commands, so it finds xaden.

Check the result:

xaden version

xaden version: prints the installed Xaden version.

Install from a zip archive

Choose this if you only want to use Xaden, need no git history, and are happy to download updates yourself.

curl -fsSL -o xaden.zip https://github.com/flo1o1/xaden-dev/archive/refs/tags/v<version>.zip
unzip -q xaden.zip -d ~/tools
~/tools/xaden-<version>/scripts/install.sh

curl ...: downloads the archive of release <version> (for example 0.2.3) into the current folder and stops with an error if the download fails.
unzip ...: extracts it into ~/tools/xaden-<version>. If unzip is missing, install it with your package manager. Do not move the folder afterwards, because the xaden link points into it.
~/tools/xaden-<version>/scripts/install.sh: creates the link, as above.

Then continue with the PATH line above and xaden version.

When to choose which

git clone: you want updates with git pull, a choice of release tags, or to read the history and contribute.
zip: you only want to use Xaden and download updates yourself.

Verify what you downloaded

Download only from the repository address over HTTPS, check that xaden version prints the version you expect, and read the scripts you are about to run: they are plain shell. The maintainer also signs the checksum of every release; see Verify releases.

Create a project or add Xaden to a repository. Later: Update Xaden.