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Installation

Currently only linux is officially supported. Precompiled binary is provided on Github and an AUR package is available for Arch. To build rmpc yourself you will need to have rust toolchain installed. More installation methods will come in the future.

Steps

  1. Install rmpc with one of the following methods

    Arch Linux

    yay -S rmpc-git

    NixOS

    Add rmpc (available in nixos-unstable) to your systemPackages and rebuild.

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    { pkgs, ... }:
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    {
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      environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
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        rmpc
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      ];
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    }

    Precompiled binaries

    By downloading a precompiled binary from github releases page. Then untar the archive, set execute persmission if needed and run rmpc.

    Using cargo

    # compile the latest version from source
    cargo install rmpc --locked
    # or download precompiled binary with cargo binstall
    cargo binstall rmpc
    # or compile the latest work in progress version from git
    cargo install --git https://github.com/mierak/rmpc --locked

  2. Setup your config file

    Configuring rmpc Generate sample config file for rmpc and customize it to your liking.

  3. Run rmpc

    rmpc
    # or if you want to check out the CLI
    rmpc --help