Installation

Prerequisite

Nebi manages Pixi workspaces, install Pixi first:

curl -fsSL https://pixi.sh/install.sh | bash

See the Pixi installation docs for more options.

Recommended: Install with Pixi

Install the CLI (nebi package) and the desktop application (nebi-desktop) with pixi global install.

pixi global install nebi

Installation script

The installer verifies release checksums and Sigstore signatures before extracting artifacts. Install cosign first from the Sigstore installation docs.

Linux & MacOS

This installs the latest release of nebi to ~/.local/bin (CLI and desktop app):

curl -fsSL https://nebi.nebari.dev/install.sh | sh -s -- --desktop

Make sure it’s on your PATH:

export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

Advanced options:

• --version <ver>: Install specific version (e.g. v0.5.0)
• --install-dir <path>: Set install directory (default: ~/.local/bin)
• --desktop: Install the desktop app
• -h, --help: Show the help message

Windows (Powershell)

irm https://nebi.nebari.dev/install.ps1 | iex

Advanced options:

• -Version <ver>: Install specific version (e.g. v0.5.0)
• -InstallDir <path>: Set install directory (default: $env:LOCALAPPDATA\nebi)
• -Desktop: Install the desktop app

Install with conda

Nebi CLI and desktop packages are distributed on conda-forge, you can install it with conda in your base environment:

conda install conda-forge::nebi

Install from source

For certain cases like development or testing, you can install Nebi from source.

Prerequisite: Go version 1.25+

go install github.com/nebari-dev/nebi/cmd/nebi@v0.14

Prefer a released tag or audited commit instead of a mutable version selector.