Packages

Packaging Guideline

Simply moving lf binary to an executable path should be enough in most cases (e.g. /usr/bin/lf). Optionally, you may also want to consider the followings:

• Documentation is already bundled in the binary and it can be viewed either using lf -doc from the command line or using doc command (default F1) inside lf. If you like to also make it available with man command (i.e. man lf), you can move lf.1 file to an appropriate man folder (e.g. /usr/share/man/man1/lf.1).

• The example configuration etc/lfrc.example contains useful settings which can be used as defaults. You can either move this file to /etc/lf/lfrc to make it directly available or to an alternative path to copy from (e.g. /etc/lf/lfrc.example or /usr/share/doc/lf/lfrc.example). You may also make changes appropriate for the system (e.g. sed -i '/^cmd trash/ s/mv/mv --backup=numbered/' lfrc.example).

• The function lfcd is provided for common shells that is used to change the working directory on quit. For fish shell, you can copy etc/lfcd.fish file to a vendor function directory to make this function directly available without configuration (e.g. /usr/share/fish/vendor_functions.d/lfcd.fish). For zsh shell, you can copy etc/lfcd.sh file similarly, though files in site functions directory are not automatically loaded (e.g. /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/lfcd.sh). For bash shell, you can copy etc/lfcd.sh to the profile directory if it exists, though files in profile directory are usually only sourced in login shells (e.g. /etc/profile.d/lfcd.sh).

• The function LF is provided in etc/lf.vim to use lf as a file opener in vim. You can copy this file to a runtime path to make this function directly available without configuration (e.g. /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/lf.vim).

Arch Linux

The following packages are available in the AUR.

• lf
• lf-git

pkgsrc

• sysutils/lf

Void Linux

Package is avaliabe in repository.

Install with

# xbps-install lf