site: add platform hints to binaries page

This commit is contained in:
Simon Michael 2009-06-13 19:21:53 +00:00
parent 3cd21d037d
commit 88459143fd

View File

@ -1,13 +1,55 @@
<link rel=stylesheet href="/hledger.css" type="text/css" media=screen>
<style>
body {padding:1em;}
#platformdocs table {border:none;}
#platformdocs td {width:33%;vertical-align:top;}
code {white-space:nowrap;}
</style>
<h1>hledger binaries</h1>
<p>
Experimental <a href="http://hledger.org">hledger</a> binaries.
<p>
Pick a likely-looking file, pick a mouse button, and download.<br>
Go to the download folder in a terminal/shell/command window.<br>
Hopefully the file got decompressed, if not, do that now.<br>
Rename it to hledger.<br>
Make it executable: <code>chmod +x hledger</code>.<br>
Try running it: <code>./hledger --help</code>.<br>
Success/failure reports and advice on making this easier are <a href="http://hledger.org/#contact">most welcome</a>.
Here are the available hledger binaries and some platform-specific hints.
Your success/failure reports and advice on making this easier are appreciated: <a
href="http://hledger.org/#contact">http://hledger.org/#contact</a>
<p>
<table id="platformdocs">
<tr>
<th>GNU/Linux</th>
<th>Mac</th>
<th>Windows</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Pick a likely-looking linux binary, pick a mouse button, and download.
Go to the download folder in a shell window.
If the file did not get decompressed, do that now: <code>gunzip hledger-*</code>.
Rename the binary to hledger.
Make it executable: <code>chmod +x hledger</code>.
Try running it: <code>./hledger --help</code>.
</td>
<td>
Click the latest mac binary.
The file should be downloaded and decompressed into your Safari download folder.
Open a terminal window and go to that folder.
Rename the binary to hledger.
Make it executable: <code>chmod +x hledger</code>.
Try running it: <code>./hledger --help</code>.
</td>
<td>
Windows binary coming soon.
Right-click and save to your desktop.
If the file did not get decompressed, do that now.
Open a command window and go to that folder.
Try running it: <code>hledger --help</code>.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br>