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Install Nanocl on MacOS

Quick install​

curl -fsSL https://download.next-hat.com/scripts/get-nanocl.sh | sh

This script will download and install the latest version of Nanocl for your platform. It doesn't require root privileges. Since it install it in your home directory, under the ~/.nanocl directory. And add a ~/.nanocl/env file in your shell profile to have the nanocl command in your PATH. But then the command will only be available for your user.

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The script will fallback to build from source from crates.io if no prebuilt binary is available for your platform. Therefore no man pages will be installed in this case.

Manual install​

Get the CLI tarball​

You can grab the nanocl tarball directly from the GitHub releases page.
You can also use the following commands to download and extract the tarball:

curl -LO https://github.com/next-hat/nanocl/releases/download/nanocl-0.18.0/nanocl_0.18.0_mac_aarch64.tar.gz
tar -xzf nanocl_0.18.0_mac_aarch64.tar.gz

Extracted directory layout:

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├─ bin/
│  └─ nanocl (the nanocl binary)
└─ share/
   └─ man/
      └─ man1/   (multiple man pages for nanocl and its subcommands)

We now need to move the nanocl binary and it's man pages to appropriate locations.

sudo mv ./bin/nanocl /usr/local/bin
sudo mv ./share/man/man1/* /usr/local/share/man/man1

Compile from source​

You need to install PostgreSQL first using Homebrew:

brew install libpq
brew link --force libpq

If there is no release binary for your platform, you can compile Nanocl from source using Cargo.

Prerequisites:

cargo install nanocl

Verify installation​

Once all these steps are done, you can verify that Nanocl is correctly installed by checking its version:

nanocl --version

Now be sure to follow the post installation steps to install nanocl components.