The stupid package installer for Windows

Chocolatey, Ninite and Npackd are way too complicated. I needed something simple to install stuff on Windows machines, here it is.

And when I say stupid, I really mean it. It is so dumb it cannot even handle errors! If one occurs, just-install will happily spit an undecipherable stack trace on the console. The only thing it is capable of is downloading a setup program and silently execute it. This simplicity means that it's trivial to add support for new software, seriously, check out the registry!

Run this command in a command prompt, as Administrator:

msiexec.exe /i http://go.just-install.it

If you like more traditional means of installation then download just-install.msi, then double click the file to install it yourself.

To install a package:

just-install firefox

To view a list of available packages:

just-install list

To update the list of available packages:

just-install update

To forcibly re-download an installer and re-run it:

just-install -f firefox

To force installation of a package for a specific architecture (use "x86" or "x86_64"):

just-install -a x86 go

In case you are lost, help is always few keystrokes away:

just-install --help

See CONTRIBUTING.md

It looks like Microsoft is adding a package manager called OneGet to Windows 10. Since the ultimate purpose of just-install is to be replaced by an official solution from Microsoft, we won't officially support Windows 10, and we invite you to use and contribute to the development of OneGet so that the next release of Windows gets a decent package manager.

We will continue to support just-install on Windows XP, 7, 8 and 8.1.

Cube icon derived from the one available from Ionicons.