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💿 Installing gtars

Gtars is available as a Rust crate, Python package, and R package. You can install it using the following methods:

🦀 Rust

  • 🟢 Release versions

You can get latest released rust gtars crate via cargo:

cargo install gtars

  • 🟡 Development versions

You can find development versions and pre-releases on GitHub.

🐍 Python bindings

  • 🟢 Release version

You can get latest released Python package gtars from PyPI:

pip install gtars

  • 🟡 Development version

To install the development version, you'll have to build it locally. Build Python bindings like this:

cd bindings/python
maturin build --interpreter 3.11 --release

Then install the local wheel that was just built:

gtars_version=`grep '^version =' Cargo.toml | cut -d '"' -f 2`
python_version=$(python --version | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d '.' -f1-2 | tr -d '.')
wheel_path=$(find target/wheels/gtars-${gtars_version}-cp${python_version}-cp${python_version}-*.whl)
pip install --force-reinstall ${wheel_path}

🆁 R bindings

🚧 Work in progress 🚧