If you're on linx and/or like to have more control over how you install Timeglass we provide two ways for manual installation. If you have a 64bit architecture it is possible to just download the prebuild binaries and go to step 2, else you should build from source.
First, you'll need install the go toolchain, instructions are here. With Go installed you can simply run go get for both binaries:
go get -u github.com/timeglass/glass
go get -u github.com/timeglass/glass/glass-daemon
The source code will now be in your workspace and binaries are found in $GOPATH/bin. If you want to rebuild the binaries at a later point your can use the build script in the root of the project like so: ./make.bash build
If you downloaded the prebuild binaries you'll first need to unzip them and the copy the contents to a directory thats in your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin). If you build from source the binaries are probably already in your path, if not you must copy or link them there yourself.
Check that this was done successfull by opening a new terminal window and running: glass. You should see all the Timeglass commands that are now available to you.
An important part of Timeglass is the monitoring of file system activity. For this it needs a small background process that is always running, lucky this service can be installed and started by running a single command: glass install, if the output is empty everything went as expected.
NOTE1: On OSX and linux this service is currently installed for all accounts and requires you to use sudo: sudo glass install
NOTE2: On Windows this service requires administration privileges so either 'run as Administrator' or log in as the Administrator and run the install command