Get this into Linux package managers

[alexgleason]

This is such an amazing tool that has become part of my everyday workflow. I think it would help developers a lot who are getting into Nostr.

I think we should try to get this into Debian. You should be able to apt install nak.

[badonyx]

If you have homebrew you can do

brew tap nostorg/nostr
brew install nak

[gustavonmartins]

@alexgleason
To extend on what you said, if nak could be avaiable as a service/daemon, then lots of work of implementing NIPS in different programming languages could be saved, because a server could just call nak to validate messages, dns, etc.

This would save people from reinventing the wheel many times and release more resources to be applied in other interesting areas.

Now that I think of it, maybe thats the idea behind relayerhttps://github.com/fiatjaf/relayer ?

[xeruf]

fyi link target was off: https://github.com/fiatjaf/relayer

nak is also in the Arch AUR

[pypeaday]

FWIW because you can just download a binary, there's a nice installer utility for installing binaries right off of github that I've been using (I host my own server but you can use his) - see https://github.com/jpillora/installer

In my repo I've put it into a dockerfile so that you can just host it locally with your own domain - https://github.com/pypeaday/installer/blob/master/Dockerfile

And then assuming your using his main server the install is "RUN curl https://i.jpillora.com/fiatjaf/nak! | bash"

I would go this route because things like apt will generally be behind on versions before too long. I don't know what kind of effort goes into maintaining packages for different package managers but this installer method has become the best way for binaries in my opinion

[jurraca]

For Nix users: I added it to nostrpkgs so you install it with nix build github:jurraca/nostrpkgs#nak.