installation.md

Installation

The installation has two parts.

1. Install the package or binary, which is presented in this document
2. hook into your shell.

From system packages

direnv is packaged for a variety of systems:

• Fedora
• Arch Linux
• Debian
• Gentoo go-overlay
• NetBSD pkgsrc-wip
• NixOS
• macOS Homebrew
• openSUSE
• MacPorts
• Ubuntu
• GNU Guix
• Windows

See also:

From binary builds

To install binary builds you can run this bash installer:

curl -sfL https://direnv.net/install.sh | bash

Binary builds for a variety of architectures are also available for each release.

Fetch the binary, chmod +x direnv and put it somewhere in your PATH.

Compile from source

See the Development page.

Next step

hook installation