arsenm-dev-site/content/docs/opensend/installation.md

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Installation	false	Installing opensend

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Using precompiled binary

Opensend uses continuous integration to compile. You can find the binary by clicking the download binary badge above.

Building from source

Downloading

Opensend is hosted on Gitea.

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To download opensend, you can either use the download button on one of the above, or you can use the git command

To clone opensend using the command, run the following command:

git clone https://gitea.arsenm.dev/opensend/opensend.git

Now, you will want to cd into the root of this repo before completing the rest of these instructions

Building

Since Opensend is written in go, you will need go installed in order to compile it. Most linux distros call the package providing it either go or golang.

Once go is installed, you can check that it runs by running

go version

To compile Opensend, run the following command:

make

Installing

To install opensend, run one of the following commands:

sudo make install # Linux
sudo make install-macos # macOS

Once this command completes, to test whether opensend was installed properly, run this command:

opensend -h

You should get the usage for opensend.