Installation

filepack is written in Rust and can be built from source and installed from a checked-out copy of the repo with:

cargo install --locked --path .

Or from crates.io with:

cargo install --locked filepack

See rustup.rs for installation instructions for Rust.

Pre-Built Binaries

Pre-built binaries for Linux, MacOS, and Windows can be found on the releases page.

You can use the following command on Linux, MacOS, or Windows to download the latest release, just replace DEST with the directory where you’d like to put filepack:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://filepack.com/install.sh | bash -s -- --to DEST

For example, to install filepack to ~/bin:

# create ~/bin
mkdir -p ~/bin

# download and extract filepack to ~/bin/filepack
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://filepack.com/install.sh | bash -s -- --to ~/bin

# add `~/bin` to the paths that your shell searches for executables
# this line should be added to your shell's initialization file,
# e.g. `~/.bashrc` or `~/.zshrc`
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin"

# filepack should now be executable
filepack --help

Note that install.sh may fail on GitHub Actions or in other environments where many machines share IP addresses. install.sh calls GitHub APIs in order to determine the latest version of filepack to install, and those API calls are rate-limited on a per-IP basis. To make install.sh more reliable in such circumstances, pass a specific tag to install with --tag.