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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@3

Homebrew Tap Reference.

NPM​

npm i -g @crowdin/cli

NPM Package Reference.

Docker​

docker pull crowdin/cli

Docker Container Reference.

Windows​

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 and install the public signing key:

wget -qO - https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/GPG-KEY-crowdin | sudo apt-key add -

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

echo "deb https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/deb/ /" > /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 crowdin3

To install the Crowdin CLI manually:

wget https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/deb/crowdin3.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

Installing 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 crowdin3
sudo dnf install crowdin3

To install the Crowdin CLI manually:

wget https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/rpm/crowdin3.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 can be installed as a stand-alone Java application. Download.

Installation on Linux and macOS​

  • Download crowdin-cli.zip using the link above
  • Unpack it
  • Run ./install-crowdin-cli.sh in the terminal with sudo rights in order to add crowdin command to your terminal

Installation on Windows​

  • Download crowdin-cli.zip using the link above
  • Extract it's content to the place where you want Crowdin CLI to be stored
  • Open Command Prompt as an Administrator
    • Click Start
    • In the Start Search box, type cmd, and then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter
    • If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue
  • Run setup-crowdin.bat script in order to add crowdin command to the Command Prompt
  • Restart your Command Prompt

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​