# 🚀 Advanced Installation
To install starship, you need to do two things:
- Get the starship binary onto your computer
- 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!
# Nix (opens new window)
# Getting the Binary
# Imperatively
nix-env -iA nixos.starship
# Declarative, single user, via home-manager
Add pkgs.starship
to your home.packages
in your home.nix
file, then run
home-manager switch
# Declarative, system-wide, with NixOS
Add pkgs.starship
to environment.packages
in your configuration.nix
, then run
sudo nixos-rebuild switch
# Modifying Init Scripts
# With Nix and home-manager, using zsh:
Add the following to programs.zsh.initExtra
in your home.nix
file, then run
home-manager switch