Commit c3b6b203 authored by Kenton Varda's avatar Kenton Varda

Add 'package managers' section to installation instructions.

parent fa9d0499
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## Installation: Unix
**From Release Tarball**
You may download and install the release version of Cap'n Proto like so:
<pre><code>curl -O <a href="https://capnproto.org/capnproto-c++-0.0.0.tar.gz">https://capnproto.org/capnproto-c++-0.0.0.tar.gz</a>
......@@ -91,6 +93,15 @@ This will install `capnp`, the Cap'n Proto command-line tool. It will also inst
`libcapnpc`, and `libkj` in `/usr/local/lib` and headers in `/usr/local/include/capnp` and
`/usr/local/include/kj`.
**From Package Managers**
Some package managers include Cap'n Proto packages.
Note: These packages are not maintained by us and are sometimes not up to date with the latest Cap'n Proto release.
* Debian / Ubuntu: `apt-get install capnproto`
* Homebrew (OSX): `brew install capnp`
**From Git**
If you download directly from Git, you will need to have the GNU autotools --
......@@ -108,12 +119,10 @@ installed (in addition to Git) in order to fetch the Google Test sources (done b
make -j6 check
sudo make install
**From Brew (Mac OS X)**
<pre><code>brew install capnp</code></pre>
## Installation: Windows
**From Release Zip**
1. Download Cap'n Proto Win32 build:
<pre><a href="https://capnproto.org/capnproto-c++-win32-0.0.0.zip">https://capnproto.org/capnproto-c++-win32-0.0.0.zip</a></pre>
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