macOS
Homebrew
You can install Yarn through the Homebrew package manager. This will also install Node.js if it is not already installed.
brew install yarn
If you use nvm you should exclude installing Node.js so that nvm’s version of Node.js is used.
brew install yarn --ignore-dependencies
MacPorts
You can install Yarn through MacPorts. This will also install Node.js if it is not already installed.
sudo port install yarn
Path Setup
If you chose manual installation, the following steps will add Yarn to path variable and run it from anywhere.
Note: your profile may be in your .profile
, .bash_profile
, .bashrc
, .zshrc
, etc.
- Add this to your profile:
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/yarn-[version]/bin"
(the path may vary depending on where you extracted Yarn to) - In the terminal, log in and log out for the changes to take effect
To have access to Yarn’s executables globally, you will need to set up the PATH
environment variable in your terminal. To do this, add export PATH="$PATH:`yarn global bin`"
to your profile.
Test that Yarn is installed by running:
yarn --version
Windows
There are three options for installing Yarn on Windows.
Download the installer
This will give you a .msi
file that when run will walk you through installing Yarn on Windows.
If you use the installer you will first need to install Node.js.
Install via Chocolatey
Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, you can install Chocolatey by followingthese instructions.
Once you have Chocolatey installed, you may install yarn by running the following code in your console:
choco install yarn
This will also ensure that you have Node.js installed.
Install via Scoop
Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows, you can install Scoop by following these instructions.
Once you have Scoop installed, you may install yarn by running the following code in your console:
scoop install yarn
If Node.js is not installed, scoop will give you a suggestion to install it. Example:
scoop install nodejs
Notice
Please whitelist your project folder and the Yarn cache directory (%LocalAppData%\Yarn) in your antivirus software, otherwise installing packages will be significantly slower as every single file will be scanned as it’s written to disk.
Test that Yarn is installed by running:
yarn --version
Debian/Ubuntu Linux
On Debian or Ubuntu Linux, you can install Yarn via our Debian package repository. You will first need to configure the repository:
curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
On Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian Stable, you will also need to configure the NodeSource repository to get a new enough version of Node.js (Debian Testing and Ubuntu 16.04 come packaged with a sufficient version of Node.js, so this step is not required in those environments)
Then you can simply:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
CentOS / Fedora / RHEL
On CentOS, Fedora and RHEL, you can install Yarn via our RPM package repository.
sudo wget https://dl.yarnpkg.com/rpm/yarn.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/yarn.repo
If you do not already have Node.js installed, you should also configure the NodeSource repository:
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | bash -
Then you can simply:
sudo yum install yarn
Arch Linux
On Arch Linux, Yarn can be installed through the official package manager.
pacman -S yarn
Solus
On Solus, you can install yarn via the Solus repository.
sudo eopkg install yarn
Alpine
On Alpine Linux (3.6+), you can install yarn with apk.
apk add yarn
Path Setup
If you chose manual installation, the following steps will add Yarn to path variable and run it from anywhere.
Note: your profile may be in your .profile
, .bash_profile
, .bashrc
, .zshrc
, etc.
- Add this to your profile:
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/yarn-[version]/bin"
(the path may vary depending on where you extracted Yarn to) - In the terminal, log in and log out for the changes to take effect
To have access to Yarn’s executables globally, you will need to set up the PATH
environment variable in your terminal. To do this, add export PATH="$PATH:`yarn global bin`"
to your profile.
Test that Yarn is installed by running:
yarn --version