weinre - Installing

weinre is implemented as a node.js application, and so you'll need to download and install a node runtime to run weinre.

To install weinre, use npm, or download a binary package. weinre is not sensitive to the directory it's installed in, and does not write to any files.

npm installation

weinre can be installed as an npm package. The *-bin.tar.gz urls/files for binary packages can be used as a target of the npm install command.

It's likely you will want to install weinre globally instead of locally (in the npm sense), which means you will typically want to use the npm -g option to install. For *ix and Mac, this also means prefixing your command with sudo. For Windows, AFAIK, you don't need sudo or any equivalent.

Here's an example of installing from a binary package via URL:

sudo npm -g install http://example.com/path/to/apache-cordova-weinre-X.Y.Z-bin.tar.gz

weinre is also deployed on https://npmjs.org/package/weinre so that you can install it via:

sudo npm -g install weinre

Binary Packages

Unofficial binary packages for your convenience:

• http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/

The binary packages available are:

• apache-cordova-weinre-{version}-bin.tar.gz
• apache-cordova-weinre-{version}-bin.zip
• apache-cordova-weinre-{version}-doc.tar.gz
• apache-cordova-weinre-{version}-doc.zip
• apache-cordova-weinre-{version}-src.tar.gz
• apache-cordova-weinre-{version}-src.zip

The difference between the .tar.gz and .zip archives is the archive format only. When expanded, both archives produce the same files.

The doc archives contain the stand-alone HTML documentation

The src archives contain the ready-to-rebuild source

The bin archives contain the ready-to-run binaries

If the {version} contains a moniker like pre, this is indicative of an unofficial, non-final binary package for your convenience, as opposed to an official release.