Jest is distributed as a tarball and installs using Python’s distutils. Because of that, you will need a Python interpreter and some way of unpacking tarballs. (Jest is also compatible with setuptools.)

To install it:

  1. Download the latest version from http://download.gna.org/jest/?C=M;O=D
  2. Unpack the tarball
  3. Install using distutils

Example

To install it from the command line, you might do:

#download
wget http://download.gna.org/jest/jest-version.tar.gz

#unpack
tar xzf jest-version.tar.gz

#install
cd jest-version
python setup.py install

This example uses wget to download it, tar to unpack it, and cd to move into the unpacked directory so that you can use distutils on it. Depending on your operating system and installed programs, you may have to do something a little different.