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Installing
cheat
has no runtime dependencies. As such, installing it is generally
straightforward. There are a few methods available:
Install manually
Unix-like
On Unix-like systems, you may simply paste the following snippet into your terminal:
cd /tmp \
&& wget https://github.com/cheat/cheat/releases/download/4.3.1/cheat-linux-amd64.gz \
&& gunzip cheat-linux-amd64.gz \
&& chmod +x cheat-linux-amd64 \
&& sudo mv cheat-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/cheat
You may need to need to change the version number (4.3.1
) and the archive
(cheat-linux-amd64.gz
) depending on your platform.
See the releases page for a list of supported platforms.
Windows
TODO: community support is requested here. Please open a PR if you'd like to contribute installation instructions for Windows.
Install via go install
If you have go
version >=1.17
available on your PATH
, you can install
cheat
via go install
:
go install github.com/cheat/cheat/cmd/cheat@latest
Install via package manager
Several community-maintained packages are also available:
Package manager | Installing |
---|---|
brew | brew install cheat |
docker | alias cheat='docker run --rm bannmann/docker-cheat' |
nix | nix-env -iA nixos.cheat |
snap | snap install cheat |
Configuring
Three things must be done before you can use cheat
:
- A config file must be generated
cheatpaths
must be configured- Community cheatsheets must be downloaded
On first run, cheat
will run an installer that will do all of the above
automatically. After the installer is complete, it is strongly advised that you
view the configuration file that was generated, as you may want to change some
of its default values (to enable colorization, change the paginator, etc).
conf.yml
cheat
is configured by a YAML file that will be auto-generated on first run.
By default, the config file is assumed to exist on an XDG-compliant
configuration path like ~/.config/cheat/conf.yml
. If you would like to store
it elsewhere, you may export a CHEAT_CONFIG_PATH
environment variable that
specifies its path:
export CHEAT_CONFIG_PATH="~/.dotfiles/cheat/conf.yml"