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I guess a real script with "curl zamfoo.com/?license=$ZAMFOO_LICENSE" | sh" was too hard so I'm better off giving my root password to strangers.

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I hope you are bring sarcastic. Never ever do something like that! Or would you also blindly execute anything I tell you to?

Sarcastic. Not too long ago, npm install was done that way. And IIRC I had to install some Python package manager that way too (or was it PHP?).

That's still the recommended way to install Distribute (for Python) [1] -- though they at least don't recommend you pipe it to sh directly.

Composer (for PHP) [2] also uses this install method, but you can just download the Phar file from their Web site directly -- all the sh script does is check PHP settings and dependencies.

[1]: http://pythonhosted.org/distribute/

[2]: http://getcomposer.org/

That's the point. That's exactly what the form is having you do.

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