Installation

Install the latest release as a prebuilt binary — no Rust toolchain needed. The script detects your platform and downloads the matching build.

macOS and Linux

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/dk0d/shki/releases/latest/download/shki-installer.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://github.com/dk0d/shki/releases/latest/download/shki-installer.ps1 | iex

Both install shki into $CARGO_HOME/bin (~/.cargo/bin by default — make sure it is on your PATH), along with an updater:

shki-update   # upgrade in place to the newest release

To pin a version, replace latest/download with download/v<version>, e.g. .../releases/download/v0.9.6/shki-installer.sh.

With cargo binstall

shki is not published to crates.io, so point binstall at the repository:

cargo binstall --git https://github.com/dk0d/shki shki

This fetches the same prebuilt binary as the scripts above instead of compiling. There is no @latest specifier — binstall expects a semver requirement, and with --git it reads the version from the repository, which is already the newest release. Use shki@* to state “any version” explicitly, or shki@0.9.6 to pin. Unlike the install scripts, binstall does not install shki-update.

From source

Prebuilt binaries cover macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Linux (x86_64 and aarch64, glibc), and Windows (x86_64). Anywhere else, build from source:

cargo install --git https://github.com/dk0d/shki

Or locally:

git clone https://github.com/dk0d/shki
cd shki
cargo install --path .