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Getting Started with Pear
Requirements
Pear runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
The pear CLI can be installed from npm, which comes with node.
The npm package manager can also be used to install application dependencies later on.
On MacOS and Linux, we recommend installing node using nvm
On Windows we recommend installing node with nvs.
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The Pear Runtime does not rely on node, node is only needed to install and run the npm package manager.
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Setup
To install Pear run the following command:
npm i -g pear
To complete the setup, run the pear command.
pear
If a Pear application, such as Keet, is already installed then the Pear platform is already available. In this case, running pear should show help output.
If not, the first run of pear will fetch the platform from peers, after which running pear again should output help information.
To check that Pear is fully working, try the following command:
pear launch keet
Pear loads applications from peers, so this command should launch Keet whether or not it was downloaded and installed beforehand.