Get Rex
CPAN
The recommended way to get Rex is to install it from CPAN into your user account's own Perl environment (managed by e.g. local::lib, Perlbrew or similar). You can simply use your preferred client, for example:
$ cpanm Rex
While it's possible to install Rex system-wide from CPAN, for that use case you might be interested in checking out packages for your operating system.
Package managers
Official packages
Rex is distributed via package managers for many different operating systems. The Repology page of Rex is an up-to-date list of available Rex packages.
We encourage you to help those package management projects to distribute Rex. We are happy to support the process, so feel free to get us involved too.
Community packages
If you maintain a repository or an overlay which includes Rex for your distribution, and you would like to get it listed here, just let us know.
Installing from source
You can clone our GitHub repository to install Rex from source. Development is done in the master branch, and we also tag each release there. Installing from source requires Dist::Zilla:
$ git clone https://github.com/RexOps/Rex.git
$ cd Rex
$ cpanm Dist::Zilla
$ dzil authordeps | cpanm
$ dzil listdeps | cpanm
$ dzil install
Some of the optional dependencies might not be available on all platforms, but to install them as well, use this command:
dzil listdeps --suggests | cpanm