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Installation

datatools 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/datatools/releases/latest

Platform Zip Filename
Windows datatools-VERSION_NUMBER-windows-amd64.zip
Mac OS X datatools-VERSION_NUMBER-macosx-amd64.zip
Linux/Intel datatools-VERSION_NUMBER-linux-amd64.zip
Raspbery Pi datatools-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 datatools-*-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 datatools-*-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 datatools-*-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 datatools-*-raspbian-arm7.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    csvfind -version

Compiling from source

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

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

Or clone the repstory and then compile

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