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What problems did you have installing? I think it was straightforward for me on manjaro.

This was a year or more ago, but this failed to install: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bs-platform/

It's pretty out of date here too. I can't remember if I tried to install with npm.

Oh yes, you definitely want to install it with npm rather than your package manager, unless you are trying to completely avoid npm.