Installation Options

## Other options to install the GitLab CLI

These installation instructions are either not officially supported by GitLab, or are maintained by the community.

## Table of contents

• macOS
• Windows
• Linux
  • Homebrew
  • mise-en-place
  • ASDF
  • Snapcraft (currently out of date)
  • Arch Linux
  • Alpine Linux
    • Install a pinned version from edge
    • Alpine Linux Docker-way
  • Fedora
  • Nix/NixOS
  • WakeMeOps (Debian/Ubuntu)
  • MPR (Debian/Ubuntu)
    • Prebuilt-MPR
  • Spack
• Docker
  • GitLab CICD

## macOS

• Homebrew (officially supported)

  • Install with: brew install glab
  • Update with: brew upgrade glab

• MacPorts:

  • Install with: sudo port install glab
  • Update with: sudo port selfupdate && sudo port upgrade glab

• mise-en-place

  • Add to the [tools] section of one of mise's configuration files: "ubi:gitlab-org/cli" = { version = "latest", exe = "glab", provider = "gitlab" }.
  • Install with mise install

• ASDF tool version manager:

  • Install with: asdf plugin add glab; asdf install glab latest; asdf global glab latest

• Install into usr/bin with a shell script: curl -s "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli/-/raw/main/scripts/install.sh" | sudo sh

  Before running any install script, review its contents.

## Windows

• Homebrew (through Windows Subsystem for Linux) (officially supported)
  • Install with: brew install glab
  • Update with: brew upgrade glab
• WinGet
  • Install with: winget install glab.glab
  • Update with: winget install glab.glab
• Chocolatey
  • Install with: choco install glab
  • Update with: choco upgrade glab
• scoop
  • Install with: scoop install glab
  • Update with: scoop update glab
• mise-en-place
  • Add "ubi:gitlab-org/cli" = { version = "latest", exe = "glab", provider = "gitlab" } to one of mise's configuration files.
  • Install with mise install
• ASDF tool version manager:
  • Requires Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
  • Install with: asdf plugin add glab; asdf install glab latest; asdf global glab latest
• Download an EXE installer or the glab.exe binary from the releases page

## Linux

• Download prebuilt binaries from the releases page

### Homebrew

Installing from Homebrew is the officially supported installation method for Linux.

• Install with: brew install glab
• Update with: brew upgrade glab

### mise-en-place

Add to the [tools] section of one of mise's configuration files:

"ubi:gitlab-org/cli" = { version = "latest", exe = "glab", provider = "gitlab" }

Then run mise install to install it.

### ASDF

To install with the ASDF tool version manager, run these commands:

asdf plugin add glab; asdf install glab latest; asdf global glab latest

### Snapcraft

This method is out of date. See issue 1127 for more information.

To install glab from the Snap Store:

1. Make sure you have snap installed on your Linux distribution.
2. Install the package: sudo snap install --edge glab
3. Grant glab access to SSH keys: sudo snap connect glab:ssh-keys

### Arch Linux

For Arch Linux, glab is available:

• From the extra/glab package.
• By downloading and installing an archive from the releases page.
• From the Snap Store, if snap is installed.
• Installing with the package manager: pacman -S glab

### Alpine Linux

glab is available on the Alpine Community Repository as glab.

When installing, use --no-cache so no apk update is required:

apk add --no-cache glab

#### Install a pinned version from edge

To ensure that by default edge is used to get the latest updates. We need the edge repository in /etc/apk/repositories.

Afterwards you can install it with apk add --no-cache glab@edge

We use --no-cache so an apk update is not required.

echo "@edge http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community" >> /etc/apk/repositories
apk add --no-cache glab@edge

#### Alpine Linux Docker-way

Use edge directly

FROM alpine:3.13
RUN apk add --no-cache glab

Fetching latest glab version from edge

FROM alpine:3.13
RUN echo "@edge http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community" >> /etc/apk/repositories
RUN apk add --no-cache glab@edge

### Fedora

Fedora users can find glab as glab in the official repositories.

Install it with the command dnf install glab.

### Nix/NixOS

Nix (NixOS) users can install from nixpkgs with the command nix-env -iA nixos.glab.

### WakeMeOps (Debian/Ubuntu)

glab also exists in the WakeMeOps repository:

# Add WakeMeOps repository
curl -sSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/upciti/wakemeops/main/assets/install_repository" | sudo bash

# Install glab
sudo apt install glab

### MPR (Debian/Ubuntu)

glab is available inside the makedeb package repository. To install, run the following:

git clone 'https://mpr.makedeb.org/glab'
cd glab/
makedeb -si

#### Prebuilt-MPR

The above method downloads glab from source and builds it before packaging it into a .deb package. If you don't want to compile or just want a prebuilt package, you can also install glab from the Prebuilt-MPR:

1. Set up the Prebuilt-MPR on your system.
2. Install with the command sudo apt install glab.

### Spack

• To install: spack install glab.
• To update: spack uninstall glab && spack install glab

## Docker

A Docker image for glab is available at gitlab/glab:

docker pull gitlab/glab

### GitLab CI/CD

To use glab in a CI/CD pipeline, you must set the entrypoint of the image to the glab executable itself. For more information, see the GitLab documentation for Override the entrypoint of an image. An example .gitlab-ci.yml:

Example .gitlab-ci.yml:

example:
  stage: test
  image:
    name: 'gitlab/glab'
    entrypoint: ['']
  script:
    - glab --version