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Currently, you can download the DFINITY Canister Software Development Kit (SDK) directly from within a terminal shell on your local computer. With this installation option, you can be logged on as any user and no additional software is required.
Install the latest directly from a terminal
To download and install from a terminal shell:
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Open a terminal shell on your local computer.
For example, on macOS open the Applications folder, then open Utilities and double-click Terminal.
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Download and install the SDK package by running the following
curl
command:sh -ci "$(curl -fsSL https://sdk.dfinity.org/install.sh)"
Install a specific version from a terminal
If you want to install a specific version, for example, to test against a previous version, you can modify the installation command to include a version.
To download and install a specific version from a terminal shell:
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Open a terminal shell on your local computer.
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Set the
DFX_VERSION
environment variable to the version of the DFINITY Canister SDK package you want to install as a prefix tocurl
command.For example, to install version 0.6.7, you would run the following command:
DFX_VERSION=0.6.7 sh -ci "$(curl -fsSL https://sdk.dfinity.org/install.sh)"
Next steps
For information about the next steps to take, see Tutorials in the SDK Developer Tools.
To learn more about writing programs for the Internet Computer before you start experimenting with code, see Introduction and key concepts in the SDK Developer Tools.
For information about writing programs for the Internet Computer using Motoko, see the Motoko Programming Language Guide.