Installation

barrel can be installed via our install script or built from source with Cargo.

Quick Install

The fastest way to install barrel:

$ curl -sL https://install.barrel.rs | bash

Before installing barrel, ensure you have the following:

If you have Rust installed, you can build from source:

$ cargo install barrel-cli

This will download, compile, and install the latest version of barrel to your Cargo bin directory.

If you do not have tmux installed, use your system package manager:

macOS (Homebrew)

$ brew install tmux

Ubuntu/Debian

$ sudo apt install tmux

Fedora

$ sudo dnf install tmux

Arch Linux

$ sudo pacman -S tmux

Confirm barrel is installed correctly:

$ barrel --version

You should see the version number printed to the console.

Now that barrel is installed, head to the Quick Start guide to create your first workspace.