Installation

Install Bun with npm, Homebrew, Docker, or the official script.

Overview

Bun ships as a single, dependency-free executable. Install it with the install script, a package manager, or Docker on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

After installation, verify with bun --version and bun --revision.

Installation

macOS & Linux

curl

curl -fsSL https://bun.com/install | bash

Linux users: You need the unzip package to install Bun (sudo apt install unzip). We recommend kernel version 5.6 or higher. Bun runs on kernels as old as 3.10 (RHEL 7) with graceful degradation of newer syscalls. Use uname -r to check your kernel version.

Windows

PowerShell

powershell -c "irm bun.sh/install.ps1|iex"

Bun requires Windows 10 version 1809 or later.

For support and discussion, join the #windows channel on the Discord.

Package Managers

npm

npm install -g bun # the last `npm` command you'll ever need

Homebrew

brew install oven-sh/bun/bun

Scoop

scoop install bun

Docker

Bun provides a Docker image that supports both Linux x64 and arm64.

Docker

docker pull oven/bun
docker run --rm --init --ulimit memlock=-1:-1 oven/bun

Image Variants

Bun also publishes image variants for different operating systems:

Docker

docker pull oven/bun:debian
docker pull oven/bun:slim
docker pull oven/bun:distroless
docker pull oven/bun:alpine

To check that Bun was installed successfully, open a new terminal window and run:

terminal

bun --version
# Output: 1.x.y

# See the precise commit of `oven-sh/bun` that you're using
bun --revision
# Output: 1.x.y+b7982ac13189

If you've installed Bun but are seeing a command not found error, you may have to manually add the installation directory (~/.bun/bin) to your PATH.

Add Bun to your PATH

macOS & Linux

Determine which shell you're using

terminal

echo $SHELL
# /bin/zsh  or /bin/bash or /bin/fish

Open your shell configuration file

For bash: ~/.bashrc
For zsh: ~/.zshrc
For fish: ~/.config/fish/config.fish

Add the Bun directory to PATH

Add these lines to your configuration file:

terminal

export BUN_INSTALL="$HOME/.bun"
export PATH="$BUN_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"

Reload your shell configuration

terminal

source ~/.bashrc  # or ~/.zshrc

Windows

Determine if the bun binary is properly installed

terminal

& "$env:USERPROFILE\.bun\bin\bun" --version

If the command runs successfully but bun --version is not recognized, bun is not in your system's PATH. To fix this, open a PowerShell terminal and run the following command:

terminal

[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(
  "Path",
  [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path", "User") + ";$env:USERPROFILE\.bun\bin",
  [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User
)

Restart your terminal

Restart your terminal and test with bun --version.

terminal

bun --version

Upgrading

Once installed, the binary can upgrade itself:

terminal

bun upgrade

Homebrew users
To avoid conflicts with Homebrew, use brew upgrade bun instead.

Scoop users
To avoid conflicts with Scoop, use scoop update bun instead.

Canary Builds

-> View canary build

Bun automatically releases an (untested) canary build on every commit to main. To upgrade to the latest canary build:

terminal

# Upgrade to latest canary
bun upgrade --canary

# Switch back to stable
bun upgrade --stable

Use a canary build to test new features and bug fixes before they reach a stable release. To help the Bun team fix bugs faster, canary builds automatically upload crash reports.

Installing Older Versions

Since Bun is a single binary, you can install older versions by re-running the installer script with a specific version.

Linux & macOS

To install a specific version, pass the git tag to the install script:

terminal

curl -fsSL https://bun.com/install | bash -s "bun-v1.3.3"

Windows

On Windows, pass the version number to the PowerShell install script:

PowerShell

iex "& {$(irm https://bun.com/install.ps1)} -Version 1.3.3"

Direct Downloads

To download Bun binaries directly, visit the releases page on GitHub.

Latest Version Downloads

Linux x64

glibc, Nehalem or newer

Linux ARM64

ARM64 Linux systems

Windows x64

Nehalem or newer

Windows ARM64

Windows on ARM (Snapdragon, etc.)

macOS ARM64

Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3)

macOS x64

Intel Macs

Musl Binaries

For distributions without glibc (Alpine Linux, Void Linux):

Bun's glibc binaries require glibc 2.17 or newer. If you encounter an error like bun: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_... not found, try using the musl binary. Bun's install script automatically chooses the correct binary for your system.

CPU Requirements

Bun ships a single x64 binary per platform. It targets the Nehalem microarchitecture (SSE4.2) and selects AVX2/AVX-512 code paths at runtime when the CPU supports them, so there is no separate "baseline" download to choose.

Platform	Intel Requirement	AMD Requirement
x64	Nehalem (1st gen Core) or newer	Bulldozer or newer

Bun does not support x64 CPUs without the SSE4.2 extension. Bun requires macOS 13.0 or later. The -baseline release assets and @oven/bun-*-x64-baseline npm packages are kept as aliases of the single x64 binary for backward compatibility with older install scripts.

Uninstall

To remove Bun from your system:

macOS & Linux

terminal

rm -rf ~/.bun

Windows

PowerShell

powershell -c ~\.bun\uninstall.ps1

Package Managers

npm

npm uninstall -g bun

Homebrew

brew uninstall bun

Scoop

scoop uninstall bun