Install

Sprout is a single static binary for Linux, macOS and Windows on amd64 and arm64. git is only needed for git features.

macOS

brew install sprout-devlabs/tap/sprout

Linux

curl -fsSL https://sprout-devlabs.github.io/sprout-web/install.sh | sh

Windows

scoop bucket add sprout https://github.com/Sprout-DevLabs/scoop-bucket
scoop install sprout

Go

go install github.com/Sprout-DevLabs/sprout@latest

Homebrew

brew install sprout-devlabs/tap/sprout

Works on macOS and Linux. It installs shell completions for bash, zsh and fish, plus the man page (man sprout). brew upgrade picks up new releases.

Scoop

scoop bucket add sprout https://github.com/Sprout-DevLabs/scoop-bucket
scoop install sprout

Works on Windows, amd64 and arm64.

Linux packages

Every release has .deb, .rpm, .apk and Arch (.pkg.tar.zst) packages. They install the completions and the man page.

sudo apt install ./sprout_*_linux_amd64.deb      # Debian, Ubuntu
sudo dnf install ./sprout_*_linux_amd64.rpm      # Fedora, RHEL
sudo apk add --allow-untrusted ./sprout_*.apk    # Alpine
sudo pacman -U ./sprout_*.pkg.tar.zst            # Arch

Install script

curl -fsSL https://sprout-devlabs.github.io/sprout-web/install.sh | sh

install.sh works out your OS and architecture and downloads the release archive. It checks the SHA-256 against the release’s checksums.txt before installing anything. It installs to /usr/local/bin if that’s writable and to ~/.local/bin otherwise, and it never uses sudo.

Variable	Effect
SPROUT_VERSION=v0.2.0	Install a specific release
SPROUT_INSTALL_DIR=~/bin	Install somewhere else

Note

Piping a script into sh means trusting it. Read it first at the link above. It’s under 130 lines.

Go

go install github.com/Sprout-DevLabs/sprout@latest

Needs Go 1.22 or newer. Add completions yourself: see Completions, man page, exit codes.

Verify an install

sprout --version

To check a download by hand, compare it with the release’s checksums.txt:

shasum -a 256 -c checksums.txt --ignore-missing