Installation

Capystreama runs on Linux and Windows (amd64 and arm64).

Prebuilt releases

The simplest option, and the one most people want. Each release ships an archive for every platform:

Platform	Archive
Linux x86-64	capystreama_Linux_x86_64.tar.xz
Linux arm64	capystreama_Linux_arm64.tar.xz
Windows x86-64	capystreama_Windows_x86_64.zip
Windows arm64	capystreama_Windows_arm64.zip

Download the archive for your platform from the GitLab releases, extract it, and run the capystreama binary. Everything described in these docs — the item list, the overlay, the website tools — is in that one binary; there is nothing else to install.

On Windows the app can update itself from then on. On Linux, download a newer archive when you want to move up. See Updates, which also covers verifying a download by hand: every release publishes signed checksums and a signature for each binary.

Building it yourself

You don’t need to build the app to use it. If you want to anyway — or you’re writing a plugin to link in — the repository’s BUILDING.md has the full reference, and its Nix flake wires up the C toolchain the build needs:

nix develop          # the toolchain, ready to `go build`