Installation

Depending on your operating system you have different installation methods open to you. Please refer to the relevant section below for further instructions.

Important

This tool only supports 64-bit operating systems running on x86 platforms.

Linux

If your distribution supports installation from .deb files, please follow these instructions. Otherwise, a slightly more manual approach is required:

  1. Get the latest release archive here.

  2. Verify the MD5 checksum of the archive. (OPTIONAL)

  3. Unpack the archive to a persistent location.

  4. Add the resulting path to your PATH variable.

  5. Open a terminal session and verify the installation by calling the tool with lins.

To uninstall the package, perform the above steps in reverse: remove the PATH entry and delete the files.

Debian-based Distributions

For Debian-based distributions: Debian, Ubuntu and the likes, there is a .deb package for each release to simplify the installation process.

  1. Get the latest .deb package here.

  2. Verify the MD5 checksum of the package. (OPTIONAL)

  3. Install the .deb package with e.g.

$ sudo dpkg -i lins-0.1.0-x86_64.deb

  1. Open a terminal session and verify the installation by calling the tool with lins.

To remove the package call

$ sudo dpkg -r lins

macOS

  1. Get the latest release archive for macOS here.

  2. Verify the MD5 checksum of the archive. (OPTIONAL)

  3. Unpack the archive to a persistent location.

  4. Add the resulting path to your PATH variable.

  5. Open a terminal session and verify the installation by calling the tool with lins.

To uninstall the package, perform the above steps in reverse: remove the PATH entry and delete the files.

Windows

  1. Get the latest release archive for 64-bit Windows here.

  2. Verify the MD5 checksum of the archive. (OPTIONAL)

  3. Unpack the archive to a persistent location.

  4. Add the resulting path to your PATH variable.

  5. Open a Command Prompt or PowerShell session and verify the installation by calling the tool with lins.

To uninstall the package, perform the above steps in reverse: remove the PATH entry and delete the files.