Oils Deployments

This page is for linking to places where Oils is used, e.g. its packages on Linux Distros. Feel free to edit it!

Warning: Two Tarballs

As of 2024, there is awkwardness related to the Python -> C++ transition. The Python tarball is packaged in more places, but the long term plan is for it to go away.

Eventually, we will only distribute the C++ tarball.

• The C++ tarball is oils-for-unix-$VERSION.
• The Python tarball is oil-$VERSION.

Packages

Please package Oils!

New "Oils for Unix" C++ Tarball

• DNF (Fedora/RHEL): dnf copr enable tkbcopr/oils-for-unix && dnf in oils-for-unix
• Homebrew: brew install oils-for-unix
• Nix: pkgs.oils-for-unix
• Arch User Repository: pacman -U oils-for-unix-<version>-<architecture>.pkg.tar.zst
  • Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Oil_Shell (Outdated)
• Alpine Linux: echo https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing >> /etc/apk/repositories && apk add oils-for-unix
  • Optionally replace /bin/sh: apk add oils-for-unix-binsh
  • Optionally replace /bin/bash: apk add oils-for-unix-bash

Old "Oil" Tarball (which includes CPython code)

This tarball is going away at some point. If you maintain these, please migrate to the "Oils for Unix" tarball!

• Homebrew: brew install oil
• Nix: pkgs.oil
• Pacstall (Debian/Ubuntu): pacstall -I oil
• Void Linux: xbps-install oil

Build-from-source

You can only build from source on these platforms:

• Windows via WSL

Meta

• https://repology.org/project/oil-shell/versions

Packaging Guidelines

See Oils Packaging Guidelines