Debian / Ubuntu
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 16.04 or below and Debian Stable, you will also need to configure the NodeSource repository to get a new enough version of Node.js.
Then you can simply:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
Note: Ubuntu 17.04 comes with cmdtest
installed by default. If you’re getting errors from installing yarn
, you may want to run sudo apt remove cmdtest
first. Refer to this for more information.
If using nvm
you can avoid the node
installation by doing:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends yarn
Note: Due to the use of nodejs
instead of node
name in some distros, yarn
might complain about node
not being installed. A workaround for this is to add an alias in your .bashrc
file, like so: alias node=nodejs
. This will point yarn
to whatever version of node
you decide to use.
Path Setup
If Yarn is not found in your PATH, follow these steps to add it and allow it to be run 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