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=head1 DESCRIPTION

B<STATUS:> Early, experimental release. Many things can change without notice.

B<instopt> is an opinionated tool to automate downloading and installing
software binaries (by default to F</opt>, hence the name: "B<inst>all to
/B<opt>"). To describe how it works, I'll describe how I install my software to
F</opt>.

Normally, I depend on the package manager of my OS (Linux distribution) to
install software. But some software need to be updated more often. Let's take as
example B<firefox>, where the OS version is usually too old for my taste. I'll
usually do this:

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=item 1.

Go to the Mozilla download page and download the latest firefox binary, let's
say F<firefox-99.1.2.tar.bz2>.