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Installing the Minder CLI

The open source Minder CLI can communicate with either Minder Cloud, Stacklok's free-to-use, cloud-hosted version of Minder, or with an on-premises version of Minder that has been set up independently.

The minder CLI is built for amd64 and arm64 architectures on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

You can install minder using one of the following methods:

macOS​

The easiest way to install minder for macOS systems is through Homebrew:

brew install stacklok/tap/minder

Alternatively, you can download a .tar.gz release and unpack it with the following:

tar -xzf minder_${RELEASE}_darwin_${ARCH}.tar.gz minder
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine minder

Windows​

For Windows, the built-in winget tool is the easiest way to install minder:

winget install stacklok.minder

Alternatively, you can download a zipfile containing the minder CLI and install the binary yourself.

Linux​

We provide pre-built static binaries for Linux at: https://github.com/stacklok/minder/releases.

Building from source​

You can also build the minder CLI from source using go install github.com/stacklok/minder/cmd/cli@latest, or by following the build instructions in the repository.