Using the Installer
Standalone Executable or PowerShell script
The first step is to head over to Win-FOR Releases and grab either the winfor-cli.exe standalone installer or the winfor-cli.ps1 PowerShell script.
To use the winfor-cli.exe standalone installer, only an Administrator Command Prompt is required.
To prep your environment prior to using the PowerShell installer, make sure you launch a PowerShell Prompt as Administrator and run the following command:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Force
Once you've run that, change to the directory where you've downloaded the installer (found here). Running the installer with the -Help argument will present you the options below.
Usage (winfor-cli.ps1 or winfor-cli.exe):
winfor-cli -Install
winfor-cli -Install -User <user> -Mode <mode> -IncludeWsl
winfor-cli -WslOnly
winfor-cli -Update
winfor-cli -Upgrade
winfor-cli -Version
winfor-cli -Help
Options:
-Install Installs the Win-FOR environment
-User <user> Choose the desired username for which to configure the installation
-Mode <mode> There are two modes to choose from for the installation:
addon: Install all of the tools, but don't do any customization
dedicated: Assumes you want the full meal-deal, will install all packages and customization
-Update Identifies the current version of Win-FOR and re-installs all states from that version
-Upgrade Identifies the latest version of Win-FOR and will install that version
-Version Displays the current version of Win-FOR (if installed) then exits
-XUser The Username for the X-Ways portal - Required to download and install X-Ways
-XPass The Password for the X-Ways portal - Required to download and install X-Ways - USE QUOTES
-IncludeWsl Will install the Windows Subsystem for Linux v2 with SIFT and REMnux toolsets
This option assumes you also want the full Win-FOR suite, install that first, then WSL
-WslOnly If you wish to only install WSLv2 with SIFT and REMnux separately, without the tools
-Help Self-explanatory
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