Simply moving lf binary to an executable path should be enough in most cases (e.g. /usr/bin/lf). Optionally, you may also want to consider the followings:

• Documentation is already bundled in the binary and it can be viewed either using lf -doc from the command line or using doc command (default <f-1>) inside lf. If you like to also make it available with man command (i.e. man lf), you can move lf.1 file to an appropriate man folder (e.g. /usr/share/man/man1/lf.1).

• The example configuration etc/lfrc.example contains useful settings which can be used as defaults. You can either move this file to /etc/lf/lfrc to make it directly available or to an alternative path to copy from (e.g. /etc/lf/lfrc.example or /usr/share/doc/lf/lfrc.example). You may also make changes appropriate for the system (e.g. sed -i '/^cmd trash/ s/mv/mv --backup=numbered/' lfrc.example).

• Example colors and icons files etc/colors.example and etc/icons.example contain example settings. You can either move these files to /etc/lf/colors.example and /etc/lf/icons.example to make them directly available or to an alternative path to copy from (e.g. /etc/lf/colors.example or /usr/share/doc/lf/colors.example and /etc/lf/icons.example or /usr/share/doc/lf/icons.example).

• The function lfcd is provided for common shells that is used to change the working directory on quit.

  • For fish shell, you can copy etc/lfcd.fish file to a vendor function directory to make this function directly available without configuration (e.g. /usr/share/fish/vendor_functions.d/lfcd.fish).
  • For zsh shell, you can copy etc/lfcd.sh file similarly, though files in site functions directory are not automatically loaded (e.g. /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/lfcd.sh).
  • For bash shell, you can copy etc/lfcd.sh to the profile directory if it exists, though files in profile directory are usually only sourced in login shells (e.g. /etc/profile.d/lfcd.sh).

• Autocompletion scripts are provided for common shells.

  • For fish shell, you can copy etc/lf.fish file to a vendor function directory to make this function directly available without configuration (e.g. /usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/lf.fish).
  • For zsh shell, you can copy etc/lf.zsh file similarly, though files in site functions directory are not automatically loaded and the script should be renamed _lf (e.g. /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_lf).
  • For bash shell, you can copy etc/lf.bash to the completion directory if it exists, though files in profile directory are usually only sourced in login shells (e.g. /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/lf).

• The function LF is provided in etc/lf.vim to use lf as a file opener in vim. You can copy this file to a runtime path to make this function directly available without configuration (e.g. /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/plugin/lf.vim).

• A desktop file is provided as lf.desktop to add a desktop entry for lf. You can copy this file to an appropriate folder to make it available (e.g. /usr/share/applications/lf.desktop).

Package is available in repository.

# apk add lf

The package is available in the extra repository.

# pacman -S lf

The following packages are available in the AUR.

• lf-git
• lf-bin

lf is available in Chocolatey.

# choco install lf

And in Scoop.

# scoop install lf

And in Winget.

# winget install gokcehan.lf

Available in official repository.

# eopkg install lf

sysutils/lf is available.

Package is available in repository.

# xbps-install lf

Package is available in Homebrew.

brew install lf

Package is available in repository.

# pkg_add lf

Package is available in copr repository.

# dnf copr enable pennbauman/ports
# dnf install lf