Advanced Installation

To install starship, you need to do two things:

1. Get the starship binary onto your computer
2. Tell your shell to use the starship binary as its prompt by modifying its init scripts

For most users, the instructions on the main page will work great. However, for some more specialized platforms, different instructions are needed.

There are so many platforms out there that they didn't fit into the main README.md file, so here are some installation instructions for other platforms from the community. Is yours not here? Please do add it here if you figure it out!

Chocolatey

Prerequisites

Head over to the Chocolatey installation page and follow the instructions to install Chocolatey.

Installation

choco install starship

termux

Prerequisites

pkg install getconf

Installation

curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh -s -- --bin-dir /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin

Funtoo Linux

Installation

On Funtoo Linux, starship can be installed from core-kit via Portage:

emerge app-shells/starship

Nix

Getting the Binary

Imperatively

nix-env -iA nixos.starship

Declarative, single user, via home-manager

Enable the programs.starship module in your home.nix file, and add your settings

{
  programs.starship = {
    enable = true;
    # Configuration written to ~/.config/starship.toml
    settings = {
      # add_newline = false;

      # character = {
      #   success_symbol = "[➜](bold green)";
      #   error_symbol = "[➜](bold red)";
      # };

      # package.disabled = true;
    };
  };
}

then run

home-manager switch

Declarative, system-wide, with NixOS

Add pkgs.starship to environment.systemPackages in your configuration.nix, then run

sudo nixos-rebuild switch