# 'Slightly' Less simple install How To

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/slightly-less-simple-install-how-to/303>\
**Category:** Installation\
**Tags:** writefreely\
**Created:** [January 21, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/slightly-less-simple-install-how-to/303 "2019-01-21T16:06:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/slightly-less-simple-install-how-to/303/2 "2019-01-21T20:20:01Z")

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Thanks for writing this up! Just a small improvement I’d make for getting WriteFreely onto your server – instead of downloading and FTPing everything, you can run this on your server:

```bash
# TODO: Set this to the exact version number you want
export WFVER=0.7.1

# Download the archive
wget https://github.com/writeas/writefreely/releases/download/v$WFVER/writefreely_${WFVER}_linux_amd64.tar.gz

# Unzip it to your installation directory (~/writefreely in this case)
mkdir -p /home/$USER/writefreely
tar -C /home/$USER/writefreely -xzf writefreely_${WFVER}_linux_amd64.tar.gz

```

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