# Installing elm/bytes?

**URL:** <https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/installing-elm-bytes/2306>\
**Category:** Learn\
**Created:** [October 21, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/installing-elm-bytes/2306 "2018-10-21T19:05:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![jice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jice](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/jice)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/installing-elm-bytes/2306/1 "2018-10-21T19:05:48Z")

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I have a use case where I have to encode and decode binary messages to send and receive over HTTP. In this particular case, I need to produce and parse application/dns-message used in DNS-over-HTTPS for a DNS zone viewer and editor.

I found [https://github.com/elm/bytes](http://elm/bytes) which seems to do exactly what I need.

I tried `elm install elm/bytes` but it doesn’t recognize the package name. I can git clone the repo, but then how do I go about adding the package to my system?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![evancz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/evancz/32/16_2.png) [@evancz](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/evancz)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/installing-elm-bytes/2306/2 "2018-10-21T19:06:56Z")

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It’s still in development. It is not ready to be used yet, and will be published later on. So Elm doesn’t have it quite yet! Ports are the stopgap for this sort of thing though.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/elm_lang/original/1X/50a05e53677a2c3b47776d7abd0f113eb50193a1.png) [@system](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/installing-elm-bytes/2306/3 "2018-10-31T19:06:59Z")

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