Installation

lip runs a LeviLamina server and manages its packages. To get started, you need to install the lip executable on your system. lip is a single self-contained executable: it needs no .NET runtime or other prerequisite.

Windows installer Windows

Each release provides a Windows installer, lip-<version>-<platform>.msi, for x64 (win-x64) and ARM64 (win-arm64). It installs lip to C:\Program Files\lip and adds that directory to the system PATH. Open a new terminal afterwards to use lip. Run it, or install silently, for example with deployment tools such as Group Policy, Intune or Ansible:

msiexec /i lip-<version>-win-x64.msi /qn

Running a newer installer upgrades lip in place, and replaces an installation made by the setup.exe of lip 0.35.0 or earlier. Uninstall lip from Settings > Apps > Installed apps.

The releases of lip 0.36.0 to 0.40.0 also had a setup.exe. The installer upgrades what it installed as well, but Installed apps then still lists that setup.exe as a second lip, which you can uninstall: it no longer removes lip.

Portable archive

Each release also provides a portable archive for every platform: lip-<version>-<platform>.tar.xz for Linux and lip-<version>-<platform>.zip for macOS and Windows, where <platform> is one of linux-x64, osx-x64, osx-arm64, win-x64 and win-arm64. Extract the archive to a directory of your choice and add that directory to PATH. There is no archive for Linux on ARM64, where a LeviLamina server does not run (see Running a Server).

Upgrading

Run lip self-update to upgrade lip to its latest release, whichever way you installed it: it runs the newer installer of the kind that installed lip, or replaces the files of a portable archive in place. Running a newer installer yourself, or extracting a newer archive over the old one, works too.