question: How to Install

[gristim]

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I am currently on Linux and it is unclear to me how to install the program correctly. I have done the following:

• Install the Firefox Browser Extension
• Download the Linux.tar and run install-protocol.sh

It is not immediately obvious what the next steps are, but clicking on the browser extension does nothing, regardless of whether mpv is already open or not.

Thanks for your help!

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[Baldomo]

Hello! The recommended way of installing the program is using the Makefile but for the binary release, you can just copy what make does in the target install:

https://github.com/Baldomo/open-in-mpv/blob/d599a6470c22a5a980e5da4894793bc8f8ae9c91/Makefile#L48-L49

tldr: just copy the binary to somewhere that's in your PATH