Linux

Official DEB and RPM packages are available at devel:languages:crystal on the Open Build Service (OBS) and we provide an installer script for convenience.

Many Linux distributions provide Crystal in their system packages. There are several community-maintained packages as well, see the install overview.

Installer

We provide an installer script that automatically sets up the OBS package sources for DEB- and RPM-based package managers and installs the respective crystal package.

To install the latest stable Crystal release:

curl -fsSL https://crystal-lang.org/install.sh | sudo bash

The install script accepts optional arguments for selecting a specific Crystal version.

--version with major.minor or latest value
--channel with stable, unstable, or nightly value

Install nightly build:

curl -fsSL https://crystal-lang.org/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- --channel=nightly

Install the 1.10 release:

curl -fsSL https://crystal-lang.org/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- --version=1.10

Manual Packages

As an alternative to the automatic installer, OBS offers installation instructions for many distribution package managers as well as binary downloads.

Tarball

Alternatively, there are .tar.gz archives in each release for x86-64. See Install from a tar.gz for instructions.