Install datui

datui runs on Linux, macOS and Windows. Pick one method, check it with datui --version, then go on to the quick start.

Linux and macOS, one line

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/derekwisong/datui/main/scripts/install/install.sh | sh

The script installs the latest release for your platform:

It checks each download against the release’s SHA256SUMS, asks before it changes apt or runs an AUR helper (with no terminal to ask on, it goes ahead), and runs the installed binary before it reports success. Options go after sh -s --:

Package-manager and binary-download options are below; Uninstall says how to remove each.

Without root

Where there is no sudo, as in Azure Cloud Shell, the script installs the binary into ~/.local/bin (or $XDG_BIN_HOME) instead, and says how to put that on your PATH if it is not there. Pass --user to do the same on a machine that has sudo:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/derekwisong/datui/main/scripts/install/install.sh | sh -s -- --user

Package managers

On Fedora and RHEL, the one-line script installs the .rpm; or install it from the release, as below.

Homebrew needs brew trust before it will install from a third-party tap. The pip package installs the datui command and the Python module. cargo install compiles datui, which takes a C compiler and some minutes; with cargo-binstall installed, cargo binstall datui fetches the release archive for your platform instead.

Apt repository

Add the signing key and source once:

curl -fsSL https://derekwisong.github.io/datui-apt/public.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/datui-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/datui-archive-keyring.gpg] https://derekwisong.github.io/datui-apt/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/datui.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install datui

After that, apt upgrade keeps datui current.

Pre-built binaries

Every release on GitHub carries these, with a SHA256SUMS file and its Sigstore signature. <VERSION> is the release’s version, such as 0.4.0:

An archive holds datui, LICENSE, man/ and completions/. Unpack one and put datui somewhere on your PATH, or install a package:

sudo apt install ./datui_<VERSION>-1_amd64.deb
sudo dnf install https://github.com/derekwisong/datui/releases/download/v<VERSION>/datui-<VERSION>-1.x86_64.rpm

From source

Needs a Rust toolchain, 1.95 or newer.

git clone https://github.com/derekwisong/datui.git
cd datui
cargo build --release --locked

The binary is target/release/datui. To build a specific release, check out its tag first (git tag --list, then git checkout vX.Y.Z). To install into ~/.cargo/bin instead, run cargo install --path . --locked from the checkout.

Five features are on by default. --no-default-features leaves them all out; add back the ones you want with --features:

cargo build --release --locked --no-default-features --features sql,streaming

Example datasets lists only what the build can open.

Manual pages

The .deb, .rpm, AUR package, Homebrew formula and release archives install the manual pages: man datui, man datui-config, man 5 datui-config, man datui-keys. pip install datui puts them in the environment’s share/man, which man searches while its bin is on your PATH.

After cargo install or a build from source, datui man shows them, and this installs them where man finds them for your user:

datui man --dir ~/.local/share/man

datui man --list lists the pages.

Shell completions

The packages, Homebrew and the release archives (completions/) install the completion scripts for bash, zsh and fish. Otherwise datui completions SHELL prints the script for the flags, commands and format names. Set it up once per shell:

Windows

winget install derekwisong.datui

Uninstall

None of these touch your config, themes, saved views, cache or log. datui config path names the config files; the directories are: