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Installation

Homebrew​

To install the Crowdin CLI with Homebrew (the package manager for macOS):

brew tap crowdin/crowdin
brew install crowdin@5

Homebrew Tap Reference.

NPM​

npm i -g @crowdin/cli

NPM Package Reference.

Docker​

docker pull crowdin/cli

Docker Container Reference.

Windows​

WinGet​

winget install Crowdin.CrowdinCLI
winget upgrade Crowdin.CrowdinCLI
winget uninstall Crowdin.CrowdinCLI

You can also search for the package:

winget search crowdin

Chocolatey​

choco install crowdin-cli

Chocolatey Package Reference.

Installer​

Download and run installer for Windows.

Debian​

We sign all our packages with the Crowdin Signing Key.

Download the public signing key:

wget -qO - https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/GPG-KEY-crowdin | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/crowdin.gpg

Using the following command, create the crowdin.list file in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory:

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/crowdin.gpg] https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/deb/ /" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/crowdin.list

And your repository is ready for use. You can install the Crowdin CLI Debian package with:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install crowdin

To install the Crowdin CLI manually:

wget https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/deb/crowdin.deb -O crowdin.deb
sudo dpkg -i crowdin.deb

RPM​

We sign all our packages with the Crowdin Signing Key. Download and install the public signing key:

sudo rpm --import https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/GPG-KEY-crowdin

To install from the RPM repository, create a file called crowdin.repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory containing:

[crowdin]
name=Crowdin repository
baseurl=https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/rpm
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/GPG-KEY-crowdin
enabled=1
autorefresh=1

And your repository is ready for use. You can now install Crowdin CLI with one of the following commands:

sudo yum install crowdin
sudo dnf install crowdin

To install the Crowdin CLI manually:

wget https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/rpm/crowdin.rpm -O crowdin.rpm
sudo rpm -U crowdin.rpm

Arch Linux​

Visit the Crowdin CLI package page on Arch Linux user repository.

Standalone version​

Crowdin CLI is also distributed as a single self-contained binary for macOS, Linux, and Windows - with no runtime to install. Download the binary for your platform from the latest GitHub release. The binary runs as-is, with nothing to install. To run it as crowdin from any directory, add it to your PATH:

Setup on Linux and macOS​

  • Download the binary for your platform using the link above (for example, crowdin-linux-x64)
  • Make it executable: chmod +x crowdin-linux-x64
  • Move it to a directory on your PATH (for example, sudo mv crowdin-linux-x64 /usr/local/bin/crowdin)
  • Run crowdin --version to check that it works

Setup on Windows​

  • Download crowdin.exe
  • Move it to the folder where you want Crowdin CLI to be stored
  • Add that folder to your PATH environment variable
  • Open a new Command Prompt and run crowdin --version to check that it works

Verifying the download​

Every release binary comes with a build provenance attestation, so you can confirm it was built by the official Crowdin CLI release workflow and hasn't been modified. With the GitHub CLI installed, run:

gh attestation verify crowdin-linux-x64 --repo crowdin/crowdin-cli

Nix package manager​

nix-shell -p crowdin-cli

A nix-shell will temporarily modify your $PATH environment variable. This can be used to try a piece of software before deciding to permanently install it.

Nix package reference.

Further Reading​