Ubuntu Manpage: install-in-any-folder-arch-manjaro - Golf documentation (install-golf)

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       install-in-any-folder-arch-manjaro - Golf documentation (install-golf)

DESCRIPTION

       Installing  Golf  without  root access (for instance in a home directory of a user) can be helpful if you
       have no root permissions, or if you just want to test locally before installing Golf on your system.

       To install Golf locally without root access, first decide which directory you'd like to  install  it.  It
       can  be  any directory you can read/write access to. In this case, we'll use $HOME/.app/golf directory as
       an example.

       Set the Golf root directory:

           GG_ROOT="$HOME/.app/golf"

       Get wget and tar (some distros don't have it by default; you do need root access for this, or if not, ask
       your System Administrator to perform these tasks):

           sudo pacman -Sy --noconfirm wget tar

       Download Golf source code and extract it:

           wget "https://github.com/golf-lang/golf/archive/refs/heads/main.tar.gz" -O main.tar.gz
           tar xvfz main.tar.gz
           cd golf-main

       Install dependencies (you do need root access for this, or if  not,  ask  your  System  Administrator  to
       perform these tasks):

           sudo pacman -Sy --noconfirm debugedit
           makepkg -s --noconfirm --nobuild --noextract

       Then compile the source:

           make -j$(nproc) GG_LOCAL=1 DESTDIR="$GG_ROOT"

       And install Golf:

           make GG_LOCAL=1 DESTDIR="$GG_ROOT" install

       In order for the installation to take effect, you must update paths (so executables and other files, such
       as man pages, are found):

           export GG_ROOT="$HOME/.app/golf"
           export PATH="$GG_ROOT/usr/bin":$PATH
           export C_INCLUDE_PATH="$GG_ROOT/usr/include":$C_INCLUDE_PATH
           export MANPATH=$GG_ROOT/usr/share/man/:$MANPATH
           mandb -u -c

       To  make these path settings permanent, add the above exports to the end of your $HOME/.bashrc file so it
       runs when you start a new session (or in any other file you execute before working with Golf).

       You've installed Golf!

       To test, type in command line:

           gg -g

       If you see the path you choose for GG_ROOT above, it's working!

       A few notes due to the fact that root access isn't used for this Golf installation:

           • SELinux script for Golf requires root to install (this is true for any software, not just Golf); if
           you use SELinux, either set it to permissive, or use a Linux distro that does not use (or set) it.

           • if you're using Unix sockets (for instance for web servers to talk to your Golf server), your $HOME
           directory as well as Golf root directory must be searchable to access those sockets:

               chmod o+x $HOME
               find $HOME/.app/golf -type d -name '*' -exec chmod o+x {} \;

           If you're using TCP ports, then this setup isn't necessary.

       Here's how to uninstall.

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