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Install prerequisites

$ sudo apt-get install gcc build-essential git emacs

Clone gofer

$ git clone https://github.com/rusimody/gofer.git

Build

Above should make a directory called gofer
Usually in your home but that depends on where you ran the git clone.

Following I’ll use the expression /path/to/gofer/... Please replace path/to by the actual path. In most cases ~ should be sufficient

cd into /path/to/gofer/src and run

$ make

Currently there are/maybe warnings building gofer – Ignore!

Check executable

Above should make an executable called gofer. When you run it (at shell as:)

$ ./gofer

you should get an error that looks like this:

ERROR "pustd.pre": Unable to open file

FATAL ERROR: Unable to load prelude

This is good.
OTOH if you get something like

command gofer not found

then something wrong happened at earlier stage.

Assuming that you got the ‘FATAL’ error, set the path thus at shell (make sure the path below is correct!)

$ export PUGOFER=/path/to/gofer/pusimple.pre

Now gofer should run (at shell) ie

$ ./gofer

should start.

Non-emacs Use

If you dont want to use emacs, this much should be sufficient:
Just have gofer running in one window, an editor of your choice in another and whenever you want to add a changed file to gofer do (within gofer)

:l filename.gs

For emacs setup read the README in the emacs directory