Installation

The Wave CLI is distributed as an easy to use self-install package and via Homebrew.

The following sections describe how to install the Wave CLI on your system.

Self-install

To self-install the latest Wave CLI release from GitHub:

1. Download the latest version of the Wave CLI for your platform.

2. In a new terminal, complete the following steps:

   1. Move the executable from your downloads folder to a location in your PATH, such as ~/bin:

      mv wave-cli-0.8.0-macos-x86_64 ~/bin/wave

   2. Ensure that the executable permission is set:

      chmod u+x ~/bin/wave

3. Verify that you can build containers with Wave:

   1. Create a basic Dockerfile:

      Dockerfile

      FROM busybox:latest

   2. Build the container with the Wave CLI:

      wave -f Dockerfile

      If the install was successful, you should see output similar to the following:

      wave.seqera.io/wt/xxxxxxxxxxxx/wave/build:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Homebrew

To install the latest Wave CLI release with Homebrew:

1. Install Wave CLI with the following command:

   brew install seqeralabs/tap/wave-cli

2. Verify that you can build containers with Wave:

   1. Create a basic Dockerfile:

      Dockerfile

      FROM busybox:latest

   2. Build the container with the Wave CLI:

      wave -f Dockerfile

      If the install was successful, you should see output similar to the following:

      wave.seqera.io/wt/xxxxxxxxxxxx/wave/build:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx