Installation

Download a release

Pick the file for your operating system.

Kestrel supports

Linux

Install the .deb package. Example:

sudo apt install ./kestrel_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb

Bash completion and man pages are included and automatically installed.

sudo apt remove kestrel

Install the .rpm package. Example:

sudo dnf install ./kestrel-1.0.0-1.fc36.x86_64.rpm

Bash completion and man pages are included and automatically installed.

sudo dnf remove kestrel

kestrel is available on the AUR

Follow the normal installation procedure for AUR packages.

Extract the .tar.gz. The binary can be run from anywhere.

Example to place the binary on your $PATH:

sudo cp kestrel /usr/local/bin
kestrel --version

brew tap finfet/kestrel
brew install kestrel-cli
kestrel --version

Bash completion and man pages are included and automatically installed.

Extract the .tar.gz. The binary can be run from anywhere.

You may need to remove the macOS quarantine attribute that is added to files downloaded from the internet.

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine kestrel

Example to place the binary on your $PATH:

sudo cp kestrel /usr/local/bin/

Remove binary

brew remove kestrel-cli

Uninstall tap

brew untap finfet/kestrel

Follow the instructions on the installer. You may need to click through the SmartScreen warning.

After installation, Kestrel can be used from powershell or command prompt using the command kestrel.

Unzip the archive. kestrel.exe can be run from any location that you would like.

It's a good idea to make sure that what you downloaded matches the expected file hash.

The SHA-256 hashes of the release can be found in the file SHA256SUMS.txt

Linux

Use sha256sum <archive-name.tar.gz>

macOS

Use shasum -a 256 <archive-name.tar.gz>

Windows Powershell

Use Get-FileHash <the-archive.zip>