[joe-user]

Why guess when there are installation instructions for various platforms on the README at https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#installing?

Also, although it may not be easy to remember, is this really a problem in practice given the installation count in most contexts is one? If there's a context where it's installed regularly, that's a one-time addition to an install script, Dockerfile, etc. in my experience. Do you have a situation that isn't amenable to that?