Add installation guide for our downloadable bundle

[cderv]

This comes from discussion below

From @cderv

should we maybe add a INSTALL file or something in the bundle ? Do we have a installation page somewhere ? I think we still need to add it in our doc.

From @dragonstyle

Yes we should do a better job of this. For our AMD tarball installation, we have the following:

quarto.org/docs/download/tarball.html?version=1.2.313&idPrefix=download

The specific commands provided are not RHEL specific, but the general outline of steps is accurate and could be used if you're familiar with configuring your environment.

It would be great to improve our documentation for RHEL to include the same type of instructions...

Discussed in #4074

^{Originally posted by maxwellkonnaris January 23, 2023}
Hi, Im trying to install quarto on linux rhel7 server:

commands :

wget https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/download/v1.2.313/quarto-1.2.313-linux-rhel7-amd64.tar.gz

tar -xvzf quarto-1.2.313-linux-rhel7-amd64.tar.gz

bash: quarto: command not found

I tried quarto.exe and quarto.cmd, both dont work

Do I have to place the path quarto somewhere like in .bashrc? suprised theres no .install file when you unzip the tar. Anyone deal with this / know what to do so I can use quarto? When I press render in Vscode it says I need to download quarto CLI so its definitely not recognizing. also if I type in quarto from terminal its not recognizing as well.

Thanks!

[JOduMonT]

As I was facing a similar issue (not finding the installation guide very complete and easy to follow for RPM folk) I end on your issue

While executing the same command as you

commands :

wget https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/download/v1.2.313/quarto-1.2.313-linux-rhel7-amd64.tar.gz

tar -xvzf quarto-1.2.313-linux-rhel7-amd64.tar.gz

I successfully ended the installation by:

⚠️ The only difference is I went for the latest release, which at the time of writing this is: 1.3.361 which reflected in my given command.

I decided to install it only for my current user in $HOME
with the command echo $PATH I was able to understand that /home/USER/.local/bin is where I should copy all the content of quarto-1.3.361/bin and so I deducted that quarto-1.3.361/share should go in /home/USER/.local/share

cd quarto-1.3.361
cp -r ./bin/* $HOME/.local/bin/
cp -r ./share/* $HOME/.local/share/

So now these command are working

quarto --help
quarto install

⚠️ If you want to install for all user; I would recommend you to look at other paths given by the command echo $PATH. For most case, /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share would be the paths to use.

VS Code

after installing the Quarto plugin
I did have to use the VS Code terminal (the bash one to be more specific) to run the command: quarto preview hello.qmd

CTRL+SHIFT+K

Unable to say yet, if it's because I use Codium or if it's because this one is installed via FlatPak
To be able to use the shortcut, I added to hard-code the path of quarto-cli in the vs-code plugin