Quick start

Download the launcher from GitHub release assets with

curl -fL https://github.com/Virtuslab/scala-cli/releases/latest/download/scala-cli-x86_64-pc-linux.gz | gzip -d > scala-cli
chmod +x scala-cli
sudo mv scala-cli /usr/local/bin/scala-cli

Check that it runs fine by running its about command:

scala-cli about

Scala CLI can be installed via apt packager tool.

curl -s --compressed "https://virtuslab.github.io/scala-cli-packages/KEY.gpg" | sudo apt-key add -
sudo curl -s --compressed -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/scala_cli_packages.list "https://virtuslab.github.io/scala-cli-packages/debian/scala_cli_packages.list"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install scala-cli

The Debian package can be downloaded at this address.

Alternatively, you can download it and install it manually with:

curl -fLo scala-cli.deb https://github.com/Virtuslab/scala-cli/releases/latest/download/scala-cli-x86_64-pc-linux.deb
sudo dpkg -i scala-cli.deb

Scala CLI can be installed via yum packager tool.

sudo cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/virtuslab.repo << EOF
[virtuslab-repo]
name=VirtusLab Repo
baseurl=https://virtuslab.github.io/scala-cli-packages/CentOS/Packages
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://virtuslab.github.io/scala-cli-packages/KEY.gpg
EOF
sudo yum repo-pkgs virtuslab-repo list
sudo yum install scala-cli

The RPM package can be downloaded at this address.

Alternatively, you can download it and install it manually with:

curl -fLo scala-cli.rpm https://github.com/Virtuslab/scala-cli/releases/latest/download/scala-cli-x86_64-pc-linux.rpm
sudo rpm -i scala-cli.rpm

Download the launcher from GitHub release assets with

wget -q -O scala-cli.gz  https://github.com/Virtuslab/scala-cli/releases/latest/download/scala-cli-x86_64-pc-linux-static.gz && gunzip scala-cli.gz
chmod +x scala-cli
mv scala-cli /usr/bin/

Check that it runs fine by running its about command:

scala-cli about

Scala CLI can be installed with Nix with

nix-env -if https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/refs/heads/master.tar.gz -A scala-cli

Note that the Windows manual installation requires Visual C++ redistributable to be installed. See below for how to install it.

Download the launcher from GitHub release assets with

curl -fLo scala-cli.zip https://github.com/Virtuslab/scala-cli/releases/latest/download/scala-cli-x86_64-pc-win32.zip
tar -xf scala-cli.zip

Check that it runs fine by running its about command:

scala-cli about

If you get an error about MSVCR100.dll being missing, you have to install Visual C++ redistributable. A valid version is distributed with the Scala CLI launchers. You can download it here, and install it by double-clicking on it. Once the Visual C++ redistributable runtime is installed, check that the Scala CLI runs fine by running its about command:

scala-cli about

Note that the commands above don't put the scala-cli command in the PATH. For that, you can create a directory, move the launcher there, and add the directory to the PATH with

md "%USERPROFILE%/scala-cli"
scala-cli add-path "%USERPROFILE%/scala-cli"
move scala-cli.exe "%USERPROFILE%/scala-cli"

Download MSI installer with Scala CLI for Windows

Download the launcher from GitHub release assets with

curl -fL https://github.com/Virtuslab/scala-cli/releases/latest/download/scala-cli-x86_64-apple-darwin.gz | gzip -d > scala-cli
chmod +x scala-cli
mv scala-cli /usr/local/bin/scala-cli

Check that it runs fine by running its about command:

scala-cli about

Download PKG installer with Scala CLI for MacOS

Once downloaded, right-click on scala-cli-x86_64-apple-darwin.pkg from Finder, and choose "Open".

Scala CLI can be installed via homebrew with

brew install Virtuslab/scala-cli/scala-cli

Scala CLI can be installed with Nix with

nix-env -if https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/refs/heads/master.tar.gz -A scala-cli