cli/docs/source.md

Installation from source

0. Verify that you have Go 1.14+ installed

$ go version
go version go1.14

1. Clone cli into ~/.githubcli

$ git clone https://github.com/cli/cli.git ~/.githubcli

2. Compile

$ cd ~/.githubcli && make

3. Add ~/.githubcli/bin to your $PATH for access to the gh command-line utility.

• For bash:

$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.githubcli/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

• For Zsh:

$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.githubcli/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

• For Fish shell:

$ set -Ux fish_user_paths $HOME/.githubcli/bin $fish_user_paths

4. Restart your shell so that PATH changes take effect.