How to Install a Development version of the DuckieTV Standalone

References

In this guide, I will be using:

DEV to refer to the Development Standalone DuckieTV version (the GitHub source).

NIGHTLY to refer to the Nightly build package of DEV, and

SOURCE to refer to the GitHub source Development version of DEV, to save my aching fingers some work ;-)

Installation

So you are keen to try out the greatest and latest version of DuckieTV. Terrific.

Fair warning: In the early days, DEV was a work in progress (a canary release). You may find incomplete features and/or come across unexpected errors or surprises. But these days its actually quite stable as changes are complete and well tested.

This is a step by step guide on how to install the latest DEV version for Windows. This guide is based on my installation on the Windows 7 platform, but should hold true for other platforms (more or less).

Pre requisites:

Choose between

• (1) SOURCE: the DuckieTV GitHub archive and NWJS pairing.

OR

• (2) NIGHTLY: the Self Installing Nightly package.

While the NIGHTLY build is simpler to install, it does not give you the option to use an alternate database location, and is not ideal for debugging. if you want to read or change the code, or use an alternate database location, then choose SOURCE.

• for (1) SOURCE

  • Click here to read the SOURCE Wiki.

• for (2) NIGHTLY

  • Click here to read the NIGHTLY Wiki