Installation

jank has continuous builds for macOS, Ubuntu, and Arch. These builds are bleeding edge and you’re encouraged to update regularly. If you’re on any of the supported systems, you can install jank using your system’s package manager. If not, you can still build jank yourself.

Homebrew (macOS, aarch64)

We have a binary jank package in brew, so installation is quick and easy.

brew install jank-lang/jank/jank

To update jank, you can run the following.

brew update
brew reinstall jank-lang/jank/jank

If you’d like to install from source using brew, you can use jank-lang/jank/jank-git instead.

Note

We don’t yet have x86 binaries in the Homebrew package. If you’d like to help with this, please reach out.

Ubuntu Linux (24.04, 24.10, 25.04)

We have a binary jank package in our own repo, so installation is quick and easy.

sudo apt install -y curl gnupg
curl -s "https://ppa.jank-lang.org/KEY.gpg" | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/jank.gpg >/dev/null
sudo curl -s -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jank.list "https://ppa.jank-lang.org/jank.list"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y jank

To update jank, you can run the following.

sudo apt update
sudo apt reinstall jank

Note

Older versions of Ubuntu, like 22.04, will not work with jank. This is because jank requires C++20 to work and the libstdc++ on those systems is too old.

Arch Linux (AUR)

We have a binary jank package in AUR, so installation is quick and easy.

yay -S jank-bin

To update jank, you can run the following.

yay -Syy
yay -S jank-bin

If you’d like to install from source on Arch, you can install jank-git instead.

Something else?

Don’t see your preferred system here? Help us with packaging! We want jank to be everywhere.