# Trying to install writefreely, CLI-Only

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/trying-to-install-writefreely-cli-only/306>\
**Category:** Installation\
**Created:** [January 21, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/trying-to-install-writefreely-cli-only/306 "2019-01-21T19:47:34Z")\
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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, 9:20pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/trying-to-install-writefreely-cli-only/306/4 "2019-01-21T21:20:54Z")

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If you don’t need to modify the software, you can download the fully-built application and skip all the Go / Node.js / everything compilation.

Basically, you’ll download the latest release and extract the files on your server ([here’s how to do that](https://discuss.write.as/t/slightly-less-simple-install-how-to/303/2)), then run the commands shown on the [Getting Started](https://writefreely.org/start) page.

[This thread](https://discuss.write.as/t/slightly-less-simple-install-how-to/303) has a good walkthrough if you’re starting from scratch, or aren’t familiar with nginx / systemd on Ubuntu.

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