Alpine

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 , , , , etc.

1. Add this to your profile: (the path may vary depending on where you extracted Yarn to)
2. 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 environment variable in your terminal. To do this, add to your profile, or if you use Fish shell, simply run the command

Arch Linux

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 , , , , etc.

1. Add this to your profile: (the path may vary depending on where you extracted Yarn to)
2. 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 environment variable in your terminal. To do this, add to your profile, or if you use Fish shell, simply run the command

CentOS / Fedora / RHEL

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 , , , , etc.

1. Add this to your profile: (the path may vary depending on where you extracted Yarn to)
2. 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 environment variable in your terminal. To do this, add to your profile, or if you use Fish shell, simply run the command

Debian / Ubuntu

On Debian or Ubuntu Linux, you can install Yarn via our Debian package repository. You will first need to configure the repository:

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:

Note: Ubuntu 17.04 comes with installed by default. If you’re getting errors from installing , you may want to run first. Refer to this for more information.

If using you can avoid the installation by doing:

Note: Due to the use of instead of name in some distros, might complain about not being installed. A workaround for this is to add an alias in your file, like so: . This will point to whatever version of 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 , , , , etc.

1. Add this to your profile: (the path may vary depending on where you extracted Yarn to)
2. 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 environment variable in your terminal. To do this, add to your profile, or if you use Fish shell, simply run the command

Gentoo Linux

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 , , , , etc.

1. Add this to your profile: (the path may vary depending on where you extracted Yarn to)
2. 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 environment variable in your terminal. To do this, add to your profile, or if you use Fish shell, simply run the command

macOS

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 , , , , etc.

1. Add this to your profile: (the path may vary depending on where you extracted Yarn to)
2. 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 environment variable in your terminal. To do this, add to your profile, or if you use Fish shell, simply run the command

Upgrade Yarn

Yarn will warn you if a new version is available. To upgrade Yarn, you can do so with Homebrew.

Solus

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 , , , , etc.

1. Add this to your profile: (the path may vary depending on where you extracted Yarn to)
2. 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 environment variable in your terminal. To do this, add to your profile, or if you use Fish shell, simply run the command

Windows

Download the installer

This will give you a file that when run will walk you through installing Yarn on Windows.

If you use the installer you will first need to install Node.js.

Download InstallerDownload Installer (RC)Download Installer (Nightly)

Notice

Please whitelist your project folder and the Yarn cache directory (%LocalAppData%\Yarn) in your antivirus software, otherwise installing packages will be significantly slower as every single file will be scanned as it’s written to disk.

Alternatives

If you are using another OS or one of the other options specific to your OS will not work for you, there are a couple of alternatives. You will need to install Node.js if you don’t already have it installed.

On common Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS, it is recommended to install Yarn via our packages instead.

Installation Script

One of the easiest ways to install Yarn on macOS and generic Unix environments is via our shell script. You can install Yarn by running the following code in your terminal:

The installation process includes verifying a GPG signature. View the source on GitHub

Manual Install via tarball

You can install Yarn by downloading a tarball and extracting it anywhere.

Before extracting Yarn, it is recommended that you verify the tarball using GPG:

Install via npm

Path Setup

Unix/Linux/macOS

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 , , , , etc.

1. Add this to your profile: (the path may vary depending on where you extracted Yarn to)
2. 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 environment variable in your terminal. To do this, add to your profile, or if you use Fish shell, simply run the command

Windows

You will need to set up the environment variable in your terminal to have access to Yarn’s binaries globally.

Add to your shell environment.