xinstall: Easy Cross-platform Installation and Configuration of Apps

Install xinstall

:::bash
pip3 install -U xinstall

Usage

1. Run xinstall -h for the help doc.

2. Below is an example of install SpaceVim and configure it.

    xinstall svim -ic
   

3. In case xinstall is not on the search path, you can use python3 -m xinstall.main instead. For example, to check the help doc.

    python3 -m xinstall.main -h
   

sudo Permission

xinstall has 3 levels of sudo permission.

• (L1) Non-root user running xinstall subcmd -ic: no sudo permission
• (L2) Non-root user running xinstall --sudo subcmd -ic: sudo is called when necessary
• (L3) Non-root user running sudo xinstall subcmd -ic: root permission everywhere
• (L3) root user running xinstall subcmd -ic: root permission everywhere

The suggested way is to run xinstal --sudo subcmd -ic using non-root user if sudo permission is required. sudo xinstall subcmd -ic might have side effect as some tools are installed to the local user directory, in which case sudo xinstall subcmd -ic installs the tool into /root/ which might not what you wwant.

Proxy

Some tools used by xinstall respect environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy. Exporting those 2 evironment variable will make most part of xinstall work if proxy is required.

export http_proxy=http://server_ip:port
export https_proxy=http://server_ip:port