Installation

Install via Homebrew (macOS/Linux)

The Arduino CLI is available as a Homebrew formula since version 0.5.0:

brew update
brew install arduino-cli

Use the install script

The easiest way to get the latest version of the Arduino CLI on any supported platform is using the install.sh script:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arduino/arduino-cli/master/install.sh | sh

The script will install arduino-cli at $PWD/bin but if you want to target a different directory, for example ~/local/bin, set the BINDIR environment variable like this:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arduino/arduino-cli/master/install.sh | BINDIR=~/local/bin sh

Download the latest packages

You can download the latest version of the pre-built binaries for the supported platforms from the release page or following the links in the following table. Once downloaded, extract the binary arduino-cli into a directory that is in your PATH.

Platform
Linux	Linux 32 bit	Linux 64 bit
Linux ARM	Linux ARM 32 bit	Linux ARM 64 bit
Windows	Windows 32 bit	Windows 64 bit
Mac OSX		Mac OSX

Deprecation notice: links in the form http://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-cli/arduino-cli-latest-<platform>.tar.bz2 won’t be further updated. That URL will provide the version 0.3.7-alpha.preview, regardless of further releases.

Download a nightly build

These builds are generated everyday at 01:00 GMT from the master branch and should be considered unstable. In order to get the latest nightly build available for the supported platform, use the following links:

Platform
Linux	Nightly Linux 32 bit	Nightly Linux 64 bit
Linux ARM	Nightly Linux ARM 32 bit	Nightly Linux ARM 64 bit
Windows	Nightly Windows 32 bit	Nightly Windows 64 bit
Mac OSX		Mac OSX

These links return a 302: Found response, redirecting to latest generated builds by replacing latest with the latest available build date, using the format YYYYMMDD (i.e for 2019/Aug/06 latest is replaced with 20190806 )

Checksums for the nightly builds are available at https://downloads.arduino.cc/arduino-cli/nightly/nightly-<DATE>-checksums.txt

Once downloaded, extract the executable arduino-cli into a directory which is in your PATH.

Build from source

If you’re familiar with Golang or if you want to contribute to the project, you will probably build the arduino-cli locally with your Go toolchain. Please refer to the [contributing] document for setup instructions.

If you don’t have a working Golang environment or if you want to build arduino-cli targeting different platforms, you can use Docker to get a binary directly from sources. From the project folder run:

docker run -v $PWD:/arduino-cli -w /arduino-cli -e PACKAGE_NAME_PREFIX='snapshot' arduino/arduino-cli:builder-1 goreleaser --rm-dist --snapshot --skip-publish

Once the build is over, you will find a ./dist/ folder containing the packages built out of the current source tree.