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Version: 0.5.0

Install bob

Bob is a single binary and requires to be in your $PATH. Depending on your system run the following commands:

wget https://github.com/benchkram/bob/releases/download/0.5.0/bob_0.5.0_linux_amd64
chmod +x bob_0.5.0_linux_amd64
cp bob_0.5.0_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/bob

To confirm that everything went fine, just run:

bob --version

You should get a message about current bob version.

Install Nix

bob requires Nix to install project dependencies, so before using bob make sure you have Nix installed.

You can install Nix by running:

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon

Above command will perform a single-user installation of Nix, meaning that /nix is owned by the invoking user. You should run this under your usual user account, not as root. The script will invoke sudo to create /nix if it doesn't already exist.

To verify your installation type:

nix --version

You should get a message with current Nix version installed.

Autocompletion

For bash add this to .bashrc:

source <(bob completion)

For zsh add this to .zshrc:

source <(bob completion -z)

To start your journey with bob continue to Quick Start.