Installing YAMLStar

YAMLStar ships two native release artifacts:

1. The yaml command-line loader.
2. The libyamlstar shared library used by language bindings.

Quick Install

Install both the CLI and shared library:

curl -sSL https://yamlstar.org/install | bash

Install only the CLI:

curl -sSL https://yamlstar.org/install | BIN=1 bash

Install only the shared library:

curl -sSL https://yamlstar.org/install | LIB=1 bash

Install to a custom prefix:

curl -sSL https://yamlstar.org/install | PREFIX=/opt/yamlstar bash

PREFIX defaults to $HOME/.local for non-root users and /usr/local for root. Add PREFIX/bin to your PATH to run yaml from any directory.

For custom shared-library prefixes, your runtime loader may also need PREFIX/lib in LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on macOS.

Homebrew

YAMLStar can also be installed with Homebrew on Linux x64 and macOS ARM64:

brew trust yaml/yamlstar
brew tap yaml/yamlstar

brew install yaml/yamlstar/yamlstar
brew install yaml/yamlstar/libyamlstar

To install a specific version:

brew install yaml/yamlstar/yamlstar@0.1.8
brew install yaml/yamlstar/libyamlstar@0.1.8

Release Archives

Release archives are attached to GitHub Releases:

• yamlstar-VERSION-linux-x64.tar.xz
• yamlstar-VERSION-macos-arm64.tar.xz
• libyamlstar-VERSION-linux-x64.tar.xz
• libyamlstar-VERSION-macos-arm64.tar.xz

Each archive contains a Makefile, so manual installation is:

tar -xf yamlstar-0.1.8-linux-x64.tar.xz
cd yamlstar-0.1.8-linux-x64
make install PREFIX=$HOME/.local