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Installation

Task offers many installation methods. Check out the available methods below.

Package Managers​

Homebrew​

If you're on macOS or Linux and have Homebrew installed, getting Task is as simple as running:

brew install go-task/tap/go-task

Snap​

Task is available in Snapcraft, but keep in mind that your Linux distribution should allow classic confinement for Snaps to Task work right:

sudo snap install task --classic

Chocolatey​

If you're on Windows and have Chocolatey installed, getting Task is as simple as running:

choco install go-task

This installation method is community owned.

Scoop​

If you're on Windows and have Scoop installed, getting Task is as simple as running:

scoop install task

This installation method is community owned. After a new release of Task, it may take some time until it's available on Scoop.

AUR​

If you're on Arch Linux you can install Task from AUR using your favorite package manager such as yay, pacaur or yaourt:

yay -S taskfile-git

This installation method is community owned, but since it's -git version of the package, it's always latest available version based on the Git repository.

Fedora​

If you're on Fedora Linux you can install Task from the official Fedora repository using dnf:

sudo dnf install go-task

This installation method is community owned. After a new release of Task, it may take some time until it's available in Fedora.

Nix​

If you're on NixOS or have Nix installed you can install Task from nixpkgs:

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.go-task

This installation method is community owned. After a new release of Task, it may take some time until it's available in nixpkgs.

Get The Binary​

Binary​

You can download the binary from the releases page on GitHub and add to your $PATH.

DEB and RPM packages are also available.

The task_checksums.txt file contains the SHA-256 checksum for each file.

Install Script​

We also have an install script which is very useful in scenarios like CI. Many thanks to GoDownloader for enabling the easy generation of this script.

By default, it installs on the ./bin directory relative to the working directory:

sh -c "$(curl --location https://taskfile.dev/install.sh)" -- -d

It is possible to override the installation directory with the -b parameter. On Linux, common choices are ~/.local/bin and ~/bin to install for the current user or /usr/local/bin to install for all users:

sh -c "$(curl --location https://taskfile.dev/install.sh)" -- -d -b ~/.local/bin
caution

On macOS and Windows, ~/.local/bin and ~/bin are not added to $PATH by default.

GitHub Actions​

If you want to install Task in GitHub Actions you can try using this action by the Arduino team:

- name: Install Task
  uses: arduino/setup-task@v1

This installation method is community owned.

Build From Source​

Go Modules​

First, make sure you have Go properly installed and setup.

You can easily install the latest release globally by running:

go install github.com/go-task/task/v3/cmd/task@latest

Or you can install into another directory:

env GOBIN=/bin go install github.com/go-task/task/v3/cmd/task@latest

If using Go 1.15 or earlier, instead use:

env GO111MODULE=on go get -u github.com/go-task/task/v3/cmd/task@latest
tip

For CI environments we recommend using the install script instead, which is faster and more stable, since it'll just download the latest released binary.