Far Manager platform for .NET modules and scripts in PowerShell, F#, JavaScript
.NET 8.0
Download and install .NET 8.0 SDK or runtime, x64 or x86 depending on Far Manager.\ SDK is needed for developing FarNet modules but recommended in any case.
Check for existing installations by these commands:
dotnet --version
dotnet --info
Visual C++ Redistributable
Look at the installed programs and find entries like:
If they are missing, then install the required. Links are not provided, they keep changing.
Far Manager
Choose the required from downloads.\ Normally the stable build is recommended.
This way avoids manual steps and allows updates later.
Close Far Manager and start the PowerShell console.
Change to the Far Manager directory
Set-Location "C:\Program Files\Far Manager"
Import Far package functions
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If it fails on older systems, try
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = "Tls11,Tls12,$([Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol)"
iex (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nightroman/FarNet/main/web.ps1')
Install FarNet
Install-FarPackage FarNet
Install modules
Install-FarPackage FarNet.CopyColor
Install-FarPackage FarNet.Drawer
Install-FarPackage FarNet.EditorKit
Install-FarPackage FarNet.Explore
Install-FarPackage FarNet.FolderChart
Install-FarPackage FarNet.FSharpFar
Install-FarPackage FarNet.GitKit
Install-FarPackage FarNet.JavaScriptFar
Install-FarPackage FarNet.PowerShellFar
Install-FarPackage FarNet.RedisKit
Install-FarPackage FarNet.RightControl
Install-FarPackage FarNet.RightWords
Install-FarPackage FarNet.Vessel
Install libraries
Install-FarPackage FarNet.FSharp.Charting
Install-FarPackage FarNet.FSharp.Data
Install-FarPackage FarNet.FSharp.PowerShell
Install-FarPackage FarNet.FSharp.Unquote
Install-FarPackage FarNet.Redis
Install-FarPackage FarNet.ScottPlot
Install-FarPackage FarNet.Stateless
Install-FarPackage FarNet.SQLite
You may start Far Manager after this.
Modules are installed in %FARHOME%\FarNet\Modules
.
Libraries are installed in %FARHOME%\FarNet\Lib
.
FarNet packages installed by Install-FarPackage
may be updated in the same way.
Close Far Manager, open PowerShell console, and invoke
Set-Location "C:\Program Files\Far Manager"
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To update all packages, use
Update-FarPackage
To update one package, use Install-FarPackage
Install-FarPackage FarNet.PowerShellFar
To remove one package, use Uninstall-FarPackage
Uninstall-FarPackage FarNet.PowerShellFar
Given a package Bar
, download it as https://nuget.org/api/v2/package/Bar
The downloaded file name is Bar.<version>.nupkg
. This is a zip archive, you
may save it with the zip extension for easier unpacking.
All needed files are in the folder tools
. This folder contains FarHome
and
may contain FarHome.x64
and FarHome.x86
folders.
Copy FarHome
items to the Far Manager home directory preserving the folder
structure. For example, by this command in Far Manager:
robocopy FarHome "%FARHOME%" /s
If FarHome.x64
and FarHome.x86
exist then, depending on x64 or x86, copy
items of FarHome.x64
or FarHome.x86
to Far Manager:
robocopy FarHome.x64 "%FARHOME%" /s
robocopy FarHome.x86 "%FARHOME%" /s