Installation

This project is experimental. Get the latest release from GitHub.

Quick install with curl or irm

If you are using macOS or Linux you maybe able to install fountain using the following curl command.

curl https://rsdoiel.github.io/fountain/installer.sh | sh

On Windows you would use Powershell and the following.

irm https://rsdoiel.github.io/fountain/installer.ps1 | iex

Install from source

Requirements

• Golang >= 1.20
• Pandoc >= 3
• GNU Make
• Git

Steps

1. Clone the Git repository for the project
2. change directory into the cloned project
3. Run make, make test and make install

Here’s what that looks like for me.

git clone https://github.com/rsdoiel/fountain src/github.com/rsdoiel/fountain
cd src/github.com/rsdoiel/fountain
make
make test
make install

By default it will install the programs in $HOME/bin. $HOME/bin needs to be included in your PATH. E.g.

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

Can be added to your .profile, .bashrc or .zshrc file depending on your system’s shell.