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authorsharkdp <davidpeter@web.de>2018-08-28 20:55:15 +0200
committersharkdp <davidpeter@web.de>2018-08-28 20:55:15 +0200
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Update install instructions
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@@ -76,19 +76,31 @@ bat f - g # output 'f', then stdin, then 'g'.
## Installation
-### From binaries
+### On Ubuntu
+*... and other Debian-based Linux distributions.*
-Check out the [Release page](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/releases) for
-binary builds and Debian packages.
+Download the latest `.deb` package from the [release page](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/releases)
+and install it via:
+``` bash
+sudo dpkg -i bat_0.5.0_amd64.deb # adapt version number and architecture
+```
#### On Arch Linux
-You can install via Pacman:
+You can install [the `bat` package](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/bat/)
+from the official sources:
```bash
pacman -S bat
```
+### On Void Linux
+
+You can install `bat` via xbps-install:
+```
+xbps-install -S bat
+```
+
#### On FreeBSD
You can install a precompiled [`bat` package](https://www.freshports.org/textproc/bat) with pkg:
@@ -112,9 +124,14 @@ You can install `bat` with [Homebrew](http://braumeister.org/formula/bat):
brew install bat
```
+### From binaries
+
+Check out the [Release page](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/releases) for
+prebuilt versions of `bat` for many different architectures.
+
### From source
-If you want to build to compile `bat` from source, you need Rust 1.26 or
+If you want to build `bat` from source, you need Rust 1.26 or
higher. You can then use `cargo` to build everything:
```bash