Pear Runtime can be installed via npm.
Since npm
(or equivalent package manager) is needed to install application dependencies this guide will walk through installing pear
with npm
.
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Pear runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
The pear
CLI can be installed from npm, which comes with node
.
The npm
package manager can also be used to install application dependencies later on.
On MacOS and Linux, we recommend installing node
using nvm
On Windows we recommend installing node
with nvs
.
The Pear Runtime does not rely on
node
,node
is only needed to install and run thenpm
package manager.
To install Pear run the following command:
npm i -g pear
To complete the setup, run the pear
command.
pear
If a Pear application, such as Keet, is already installed then the Pear platform is already available. In this case, running pear
should show help output.
If not, the first run of pear
will fetch the platform from peers, after which running pear
again should output help information.
To check that Pear is fully working, try the following command:
pear run pear://keet
Pear loads applications from peers, so this command should open Keet whether or not it was downloaded and installed beforehand.