How to install tools manually from source

[fengfengyuyu]

hi,
I am reading your book at data-science-at-the-command-line.

I wanna install some of tools , such as 'Rio' , the book mentioned 'The installation instructions are for Ubuntu only'.

Would you be kindly to tell me where to get 'The installation instructions '.

Thanks in advance!

FengYu

[kubistmi]

Hello FengYu,
If I understand correctly, you would like to "install" some of the tools directly into your machine (without using Docker). While I am no expert, I have just imported some of the tools using following steps (should work on Linux distros, I have RHEL7):

1. Download the source codes and put them to some directory (I have used /home/my_user/tools, but I think /home/my_user/bin is typicall)
2. Edit your .bashrc (or .zshrc, or whatever shell you are using) by adding following line:
   export PATH=$PATH://home/my_user/tools (IF NOT ALREADY SPECIFIED)
3. Load the new configuration by: source .bashrc

That should do the trick.

Please, carefully review the dependency part of each tool to make sure you have utilities that the functions need to work properly.

Best,
Michal

[grocky]

I wrote a script that would download the tools in this repository. It's a little rough, but you can probably use it for your purposes.

https://github.com/grocky/data/blob/master/scripts/download-helper-scripts.js

[jeroenjanssens]

For the second edition, I'm planning on creating an Ansible playbook that will allow you to install all the tools on your host OS, whether that's Ubuntu or macOS. See #102 for more information.