Install
On Red Hat
In Red Hat derived distributions, you can use the Official Crystal rpm repository. Linuxbrew is also available.
Official Crystal rpm repository
To install latest stable Crystal release from the official Crystal repository hosted on Bintray run in your command line:
curl -fsSL https://crystal-lang.org/install.sh | sudo bash
The install script accepts optional arguments to install or update to a release of another channel.
--crystal
withmajor.minor.patch
,major.minor
, ormajor.minor.patch-iteration
values--channel
withstable
,unstable
, ornightly
value
curl -fsSL https://crystal-lang.org/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- --channel=nightly
You can find more detailed information at the announcement post.
Manual setup
The url of the repo is https://dl.bintray.com/crystal/rpm/{DISTRO}/{ARCH}/{CHANNEL}
.
- The valid
{DISTRO}
values areel6
andall
. - The only supported
{ARCH}
for rpm isx86_64
. - The valid
{CHANNEL}
values arestable
,unstable
, ornightly
.
Replace the desired {DISTRO}
and {CHANNEL}
in the following script and you are all set.
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/crystal.repo <<END
[crystal]
name=Crystal
baseurl=https://dl.bintray.com/crystal/rpm/{DISTRO}/x86_64/{CHANNEL}
gpgcheck=0
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://bintray.com/user/downloadSubjectPublicKey?username=bintray
END
Once the repository is configured you’re ready to install Crystal:
sudo yum install crystal
When a new Crystal version is released you can upgrade your system using:
sudo yum update crystal
Linuxbrew
If you have Linuxbrew installed you’re ready to install Crystal:
brew update
brew install crystal-lang
If you’re planning to contribute to the language itself you might find useful to install LLVM as well. So replace the last line with:
brew install crystal-lang --with-llvm