Windows: four steps
Do them in order. Nothing here needs administrator rights, and
nothing is left half-installed if you stop partway — you can pick up
again at any point.
- Step 1Get your token
- Step 2Download
- Step 3Run it
- Step 4Pick your folders
1
Get your token
Fill in the short form on our server. A token comes
back — a long password that works once, on this one computer.
Get my token
Opens depot.langtech.cloud. The token page there has a
Copy button and a link straight back to step 2.
2
Download the installer
One small file. Your Downloads folder is a fine place
for it.
Download for Windows
langtechdepot-windows.zip · about 12 KB
No need to unzip it. Double-click the downloaded file
and a window opens showing two files: the installer,
setup-langtechdepot.bat, and START-HERE.txt, a
short note.
3
Double-click setup-langtechdepot.bat
Do it right there in the zip window, and leave that window open until
the installer has finished. A black window opens and does the work. When
it asks for your token,
paste it in — right-click inside the window, or press
Ctrl+V — and press
Enter.
If Windows says “Windows protected your PC”:
click More info, then Run anyway. That
warning appears for anything downloaded from the internet that has not
been through Microsoft’s paid signing programme.
If it says it could not get Syncthing:
this machine has no
winget, or winget could not reach the
internet. Download Syncthing for Windows from
syncthing.net/downloads
(the 64-bit archive) and take
syncthing.exe out of it. Then
unzip the LangTechDepot download — right-click it →
Extract All →
Extract — put
syncthing.exe in the folder that opens, beside
setup-langtechdepot.bat, and double-click the
.bat there.
4
Pick the folders you want
A web page opens at 127.0.0.1:8384. Within a minute or two
the offers appear at the top — one for each part of the library.
Click Add on the ones you want and ignore the rest. Files
arrive under C:\Users\you\LangTechDepot.
What the names look like: each offer is named for the
part of the library it carries. On offer at the moment:
Win_everything_en (everything a Windows user needs, in
English), French_win and Indonesian_win
(language editions of the same), Android_dev_win (tools for
building Android apps), Android_apps (apps to copy onto a
phone or tablet) and Documentation. Take
Win_everything_en if you are not sure.
Seeing only a few? The library is still being moved onto
this system a folder at a time, so not all of it is on offer yet. You do
not need to register again or do anything else — new folders appear
in this list by themselves as they arrive.
That is the whole setup. Syncthing starts with your computer from now on
and keeps those folders current by itself. The folders only ever receive
— nothing on your machine is sent anywhere.
Setting up a second machine?
Start again at step 1: each machine needs its own token.
Stuck? The help page covers what
usually goes wrong. If the black window showed an error, copy that text
— it is what lets us fix things quickly.