# Slicer install/update script

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-install-update-script/40393>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [November 27, 2024, 6:32am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-install-update-script/40393 "2024-11-27T06:32:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![d-vogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b782af/32.png) [@d-vogel](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/d-vogel)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2024, 6:32am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-install-update-script/40393/1 "2024-11-27T06:32:22Z")

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Dear all,  
I am happy to share the small shell script I built for myself to install and update slicer (either stable or nightly) : [slicer-update](https://github.com/d-vogel/slicer-update/tree/main)

It is a simple command line tool that downloads the binary archive, checksums it (somehow the md5 on nightly never matches…) and installs it in the specified directory. If installed system-wide, it will also chmod the extension directory so that users can install extensions and create a desktop file.

Both stable and nightly can co-exist and will both get a separate desktop file.

For now, only Linux is tested, the MacOS implementation is incomplete.