Installation

The Wave CLI is distributed as an easy to use self-installing 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 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. For example:

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

   2. Ensure that the executable permission is set. For example:

      chmod u+x ~/bin/wave

3. Verify that you can build containers with Wave:

   1. Create a basic Dockerfile:

      cat << EOF > ./Dockerfile
      FROM busybox:latest
      EOF

   2. Use the CLI to build the container:

      wave -f Dockerfile

      Example output:

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

Homebrew

To install the latest version 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:

      cat << EOF > ./Dockerfile
      FROM busybox:latest
      EOF

   2. Use the CLI to build the container:

      wave -f Dockerfile

      Example output:

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