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title: Install tools with your OK
description: What happens in the desktop app when a task needs Node.js, Python or Git and your computer doesn't have it — and how to remove what Ysra installed.
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If a task needs Node.js, Python or Git and this computer has none of it, I
pause and ask.

![The Install Node.js card](../assets/screens/desktop/install-card.webp){ width="1440" height="891" }
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The question, how it would be installed, and two answers.
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## What happens when you choose Install

- I download the official build and check it against its published checksum.
- It goes into my own folder (`~/.ysra/tools`). **Nothing is installed
  system-wide**, and nothing in your shell changes.
- The card shows progress, then **Installed**, and the task continues.

Choose **Not now** and I carry on without it where I can, and tell you what I
couldn't do.

If the install fails, the card says why and offers **Try again**.

## See and remove them

**Settings → General → Installed tools** lists each one with its version.
**Remove** deletes it; I ask again the next time a task needs it.

![Settings, General tab with installed tools](../assets/screens/desktop/settings-general.webp){ width="1242" height="1106" }
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Your tools, and the ones I installed for you.
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## Other tools

For anything else — Go, Docker, a hosting tool — I propose one specific step
instead. See [Machine setup](machine-setup.md).