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luvit / lit

Toolkit for developing, sharing, and running luvit/lua programs and libraries.
http://lit.luvit.io/
Apache License 2.0
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"curl -L <git url> | sh" doesnt add it to the system path on OSX #104

Closed kaustavha closed 9 years ago

kaustavha commented 9 years ago

The installation instructions are mildly flawed imo. "curl -L | sh" simply installs lit in the pwd therefore one can't run 'lit' from the cmdline. Symlinks from /usr/local/bin return "-bash: ./lit: Too many levels of symbolic links". One must do a "mv /lit /usr/local/bin".

SysInfo: MBP running OSX Yosemite v10.10.

creationix commented 9 years ago

I'm not sure what you mean by symlinks. The instructions clearly state that lit is built in cwd and you need to put it in your path somewhere.

When done, you will have a lit or lit.exe executable in your directory that you can put somewhere in your path to install globally.

Not everyone wants it installed to /usr/local/bin and especially by a script they are curling from the internet. That would require sudo on most systems. It's bad enough security practice to pipe curl to sh, but sh with sudo is worse.

kaustavha commented 9 years ago

Ah gotcha, missed the line you quoted.