Installation

skimmer is a command line program run from a shell like Bash. You can find compiled version in the releases

Quick install with curl or irm

The following curl command can be used to run the installer on most POSIX systems. Programs are installed into $HOME/bin. $HOME/bin will need to be in your path. From a shell (or terminal session) run the following.

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

On Windows you’d use the following command

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

Compiled version

This is generalized instructions for a release.

Compiled versions are available for Mac OS X (Intel and M1 processors, macOS-x86_64, macOS-arm64), Linux Intel and ARM (x86_64, aarch64, armv7l ), Windows 11 Intel/ARM (x86_64, aarch64), Raspberry Pi (Linux and arml7).

VERSION_NUMBER is a semantic 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/rsdoiel/skimmer/releases/latest

The basic recipe

• Find the Zip file listed matching the architecture you’re running and download it
  • Example: if you’re on a Windows 11 desktop or laptop using an Intel style CPU and you would look for the name with “Windows-x86-64”
  • Example: if you’re on a Windows 11 Surface tablet with a arm64 CPU or the “Windows ARM Developer Kit” you’d choose the Zip file with “Windows-arm64” in the name
• Download the zip file and unzip the file.
  
• Copy the contents of the folder named “bin” to a folder that is in your path
  • (e.g. “$HOME/bin” is common).
• Adjust your PATH if needed
  • (e.g. export PATH=“HOME/bin:PATH”)
• Test by displaying the version string

macOS

1. Download the zip file
2. Unzip the zip file
3. Copy the executable 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 skimmer-*-macOS-x86_64.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/* $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    skimmer -version

Windows 11 Intel

1. Download the zip file
2. Unzip the zip file
3. Copy the executable 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 skimmer-*-Windows-x86_64.zip
    .\bin\skimmer.exe -version

Windows 11 ARM

1. Download the zip file
2. Unzip the zip file
3. Copy the executable 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 skimmer-*-Windows-arm64.zip
    .\bin\skimmer.exe -version

Linux Intel

1. Download the zip file
2. Unzip the zip file
3. Copy the executable 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 skimmer-*-Linux-x86_64.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/skimmer $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    skimmer -version

Linux ARM64

1. Download the zip file
2. Unzip the zip file
3. Copy the executable 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 skimmer-*-Linux-aarch64.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/skimmer $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    skimmer -version

Raspberry Pi OS

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 executable 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 skimmer-*-Linux-armv7l.zip
    mkdir -p $HOME/bin
    cp -v bin/skimmer $HOME/bin/
    export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
    skimmer -version

Windows 11

The general steps

1. Download the zip file into your “Downloads” folder with your web browser
2. Setup your path to where you will install the .exe file
3. Unzip the zip file
4. Copy the executable to the “bin” directory in to someplace where Windows cmd shell file find it
5. Test

    mkdir %userprofile%\bin
    set PATH=%PATH%;%userprofile$\bin
    powershell Expand-Archive Downloads\dataset-*-Windows-*.zip Dataset
    copy Dataset\bin\*.exe %userprofile%\bin\
    skimmer -version

Compiling from source

skimmer is “go get-able”. Use the “go get” command to download the dependent packages as well as skimmer’s source code.

    go get -u github.com/rsdoiel/skimmer/...

Requirements for compiling using GNU Make

1. Git >= 2
2. GNU Make >= 3.8
3. SQLite3 > 3.4
4. Pandoc > 3
5. Go >= 1.21.1

Compiling on a POSIX system

If you have all the required software (e.g. Git, GNU Make, Pandoc, SQLite3, Go) you can clone the repository and then compile in the traditional POSIX manner.

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

Compiling on a Windows machine

For Windows you need to have Go installed. I am assuming you will NOT be regenerating versions.go using Pandoc.

On a Windows box in the command shell these are the steps I would take

    cd %userprofile%
    set PATH=%PATH%;%userprofile%\bin
    go build cmd\skimmer\skimmer.go
    move skimmer.exe %userprofile%\bin\
    skimmer -version