The official installer¶

Using the installer¶

The installer is the recommended and easiest way to install Castor on your system. It works on Linux and macOS.

curl "https://castor.jolicode.com/install" | bash

Note

This method will install a phar and thus, it requires PHP >= 8.2 installed on your system.

See the next chapter to install a static binary that does not require PHP installed.

If you don't have PHP available on your system, Castor can be installed with a static binary that embeds PHP, so it can be run anywhere.

Use the --static option to install Castor this way:

curl "https://castor.jolicode.com/install" | bash -s -- --static

By default, the installer will install Castor in the current user's $HOME/.local/bin directory.

You can change that by using the --install-dir option:

curl "https://castor.jolicode.com/install" | bash -s -- --install-dir /usr/local/bin

By default, the installer will install the latest version of Castor.

You can install a specific version of Castor by using the --version option:

curl "https://castor.jolicode.com/install" | bash -s -- --version=v1.0.0

If you cannot use the installer, see the alternative methods documentation.