Pre-built binaries are available for linux, macOS and Windows on the releases page.
This installation script works for linux and MacOS and can be used for quickly
installing or upgrading to the newest clj-kondo without a package manager. It
will install to /usr/local/bin by default.
To download and execute the script:
curl -sLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo/master/script/install-clj-kondo
chmod +x install-clj-kondo
./install-clj-kondo
To install to a different directory, append the option --dir <dir> to the
above command. To download to a different directory, append the option
--download-dir <dir>. To install a specific version, use --version <yyyy.mm.dd>.
To upgrade, just run the script again.
Repositories for various Linux distributions can be found here. Look here for Arch and here for NixOS.
clj-kondo is available in the Arch User Repository. It can be installed using your favorite AUR helper such as
yay or paru. Here is an example using yay:
yay -S clj-kondo-bin
clj-kondo is available in the
Nix Packages collection.
To install it globally, add it to your systemPackages. If you just want to try it, you can do it in a Nix shell:
nix-shell -p clj-kondo
On MacOS you can use brew. On Linux you can use Homebrew on Linux.
To install with brew:
brew install borkdude/brew/clj-kondo
To upgrade:
brew upgrade clj-kondo
Apple's new M1 Silicon computers use the ARM architecture, instead of Intel. To use clj-kondo, you'll need to install Rosetta2:
softwareupdate --install-rosetta
<accept the prompt>
Once Rosetta2 is installed, try the ordinary brew install; if that doesn't work, it's possible that you'll instead need to:
arch -x86_64 brew install borkdude/brew/clj-kondo
A Windows binary version of clj-kondo.exe is available via this scoop bucket which also has several other Clojure tools for Windows:
scoop bucket add scoop-clojure https://github.com/littleli/scoop-clojure
scoop install clj-kondo
To update:
scoop update clj-kondo