Installing command line programs

Installing command line programs on Windows

On Windows, users have different options to install the designated programs.

Windows native

  1. Install the Chocolatey package manager, see https://chocolatey.org/install.
  2. Install Python3 and the Python httpie package
    choco install python3
    pip3 install httpie
    
  3. Install the MQTT.fx MQTT client
    choco install mqttfx

LinuxOnWindows aka. WSL

After running "bash" from “Start program” on Windows 10 and above, you will find yourself inside a recent Ubuntu installation, so all programs can be conveniently installed using apt, like

apt install mosquitto-clients httpie