Installation

Prerequisites

crib requires a container runtime:

• Docker (with Docker Compose v2), or
• Podman (with podman-compose)

crib auto-detects which runtime is available. To override, set CRIB_RUNTIME=docker or CRIB_RUNTIME=podman.

:::note[🐧 Linux only] crib is Linux-only. macOS and Windows support may be added if there’s interest. :::

Install with mise

The easiest way to install and manage crib versions:

mise use github:fgrehm/crib

See mise documentation for setup instructions.

Download from GitHub releases

Download the latest binary from GitHub releases:

curl -Lo crib.tar.gz "https://github.com/fgrehm/crib/releases/latest/download/crib_linux_$(uname -m | sed 's/x86_64/amd64/;s/aarch64/arm64/').tar.gz"
tar xzf crib.tar.gz crib
install -m 755 crib ~/.local/bin/crib
rm crib.tar.gz

Make sure ~/.local/bin is in your PATH. You can also install the binary to /usr/local/bin or any other directory in your PATH.

Verify

crib version