On Windows
Your OS may warn you that it came from unknown publisher.
Click More info and Run Anyway
After downloading Mastodon Explorer installer for your computer, if you wish, you can verify the downloaded executable file.
On Mac, use:
shasum -a 256 mastodon-explorer-intel.dmg
or
shasum -a 256 mastodon-explorer-arm.dmg
On Windows, use:
certUtil -hashfile MastodonExplorerInstaller.exe SHA256
On Linux, use:
sha256sum mastodon-explorer-amd64.deb
or
sha256sum mastodon-explorer.AppImage
In any case, the resulting long string should match one from this website, above.
Now, run the installer.
Your OS may warn you that it came from unknown publisher.
Click More info and Run Anyway
Drag Mastodon Explorer on top of Applications:
Now, find Mastodon Explorer in your Applications folder, right-click on it and click Open. App will run.
Normally, MacOS will automatically verify that App is safe. In unlikely event that it did not, click Open anyway to run it.
use GUI package installer or run
dpkg -i mastodon-explorer-amd64.deb
Or, if you used AppImage executable, just click on it to run it. With so many Linux distributions out there, your mileage may vary. Let us know how it goes.
On Elementary OS and similar distributions, install libvips first, for example: sudo apt install libvips.
After installation, proceed to How To page to learn how to use Mastodon Explorer.