I realize that many people are not comfortable building and installing stuff from source. Unfortunately it takes quite some effort and time to find package maintainers for the various distributions and even then there is usually a large turnaround time to update packages
To try bypass these issues I've created a snap for lxi-tools.
This means that it is now possible to install the latest release version of lxi-tools on the most popular distributions like so:
$ snap install lxi-tools
The great thing about snaps is that I maintain the snap directly and when I update my lxi-tools snap it will be immediately available for users to install. No delay!
It's pretty cool, check it out.
I've tested it on Fedora 27 and Ubuntu 17.10 but it should work on various other distributions too (Mint, ArchLinux, Debian, Gentoo, OpenSuse, Manjaro, etc.).
See
https://snapcraft.io for how to install snap on your distribution.
P.s.: There is one minor issue though: after installing the lxi-tools snap the tool command is 'lxi-tools.lxi' and not 'lxi'. Will be fixed later.
P.p.s: lxi-tools snap details can be seen here:
https://dashboard.snapcraft.io/dev/snaps/8744