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How to install on Linux

atuinsh/atuin

✨ Making your shell magical

Rust#bash#fish#history#rust

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Start here

Website ↗atuin.shThe project's own site.Docs ↗docs.atuin.shLinked from the README.In the browser ↗Open in GitHub CodespacesThe repo ships a dev container, so nothing to install.

Setup script in the repo

The maintainers included install.sh. Run it from the cloned folder after reading it.

bash install.sh

Will it work on my device?

Yes, it installs on your Linux

A ready-made Linux download is in the latest release.

Supported devices from the README: Supported platforms

Atuin supports zsh, bash, fish, nushell, xonsh, and PowerShell. See Supported platforms for the full matrix and what each tier means.

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macOS Windows Linux

Download for Linux

18.24.5 · 11/4/2026 ↗

atuin-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz

tar.gz · x64 · 21.4 MB · 2,294 downloads · best match

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.5/atuin-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "atuin-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"

Other Linux downloads (7)

atuin-server-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz

tar.gz · x64 · 7.8 MB · 41 downloads

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.5/atuin-server-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "atuin-server-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"

atuin-server-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

tar.gz · x64 · 7.9 MB · 40 downloads

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.5/atuin-server-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "atuin-server-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"

atuin-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

tar.gz · x64 · 21.6 MB · 798 downloads

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.5/atuin-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "atuin-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"

atuin-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz

tar.gz · ARM64 · 20.5 MB · 483 downloads

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.5/atuin-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "atuin-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"

atuin-server-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz

tar.gz · ARM64 · 7.9 MB · 8 downloads

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.5/atuin-server-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "atuin-server-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz"

atuin-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

tar.gz · ARM64 · 20.2 MB · 261 downloads

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.5/atuin-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "atuin-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"

atuin-server-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

tar.gz · ARM64 · 7.8 MB · 14 downloads

Move the extracted binary onto your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

curl -LO "https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/releases/download/v18.24.5/atuin-server-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "atuin-server-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"

Install with a package manager

install script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://setup.atuin.sh | sh

Pipes a remote script into your shell. Read it before running.

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

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Good to know

Cargo workspace — pick a crate with cargo run -p <name>.
Dockerfile available (base image: lukemathwalker/cargo-chef:latest-rust-slim-bookworm@sha256:b4b459d305bee99c8f8200212c46276108af90b0501386e1339336c2e03c81a2).
Dev Container config found — you can open it in VS Code Dev Containers or GitHub Codespaces for a zero-setup environment.
Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: crates/atuin-ai/Cargo.toml, crates/atuin-client/Cargo.toml, crates/atuin-common/Cargo.toml, crates/atuin-daemon/Cargo.toml and 11 more

Files we read (12)

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

.github/workflows/beta-release.yml

.github/workflows/devcontainer.yaml

.github/workflows/docker.yaml

.github/workflows/docs-main.yml

.github/workflows/docs-release.yml

.github/workflows/release.yml

CONTRIBUTING.md

Cargo.toml

Dockerfile

README.md

rust-toolchain.toml

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