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

Command line completion

Command line completion files are already bundled in the homebrew installation.

Use the install script

The script requires sh. This is always available on Linux and macOS. sh is not available by default on Windows. The script may be run on Windows by installing Git for Windows, then running it from Git Bash.

This script will install the latest version of Arduino CLI to $PWD/bin:

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

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

If you would like to use the arduino-cli command from any location, install Arduino CLI to a directory already in your PATH or add the Arduino CLI installation path to your PATH environment variable.

If you want to download a specific arduino-cli version, for example 0.9.0, pass the version number as a parameter like this:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arduino/arduino-cli/master/install.sh | sh -s 0.9.0

Download

Pre-built binaries for all the supported platforms are available for download from the links below.

If you would like to use the arduino-cli command from any location, extract the downloaded file to a directory already in your PATH or add the Arduino CLI installation path to your PATH environment variable.

Latest packages

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.

Previous versions

These are available from the releases page

Nightly builds

These builds are generated every day 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		Nightly 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

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.