how to install on debian-based linux?

[jarss]

Hello, I am not a developer, and I have a limited experience with github.

I'm using Emacs and Harper works fine through Homebrew.

Since there's no option to integrate with Debian-based linux (I'm on Pop OS on my other computer, which is based on Ubuntu), I tried to download from Github directly. I got the harper-cli in my download dir. Now what? What do I do with it?

I don't want to install Homebrew on my Linux just for harper...

[elijah-potter]

Honestly, I'm not sure if there is a good way to go about this.

I see that the mailing list has discussed it (albeit briefly, and I'm not sure if it was resolved).

The simplest answer I can think of (apart from the Harper team setting up a package source) is to compile it from source..

[jarss]

That's part of it. Not sure how I go around doing that.
From my limited experience I need to go to the folder and use ./configure, make, make install... but obviously there's a knowledge gap here, since this wont' work on the CLI...? I need to clone the repository for that, which one and how?

Not expecting you to teach me the basics of git again, just want to get a direction.

[elijah-potter]

You can install it using the cargo package manager (see here) or by downloading the binary and placing it in your PATH (see here).