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Installation
Installing Helix
The typical way to install Helix is via your operating system's package manager.
Note that:
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To get the latest nightly version of Helix, you need to build from source.
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To take full advantage of Helix, install the language servers for your preferred programming languages. See the wiki for instructions.
Pre-built binaries
Download pre-built binaries from the GitHub Releases page.
The tarball contents include an hx binary and a runtime directory.
To set up Helix:
- Add the
hxbinary to your system's$PATHto allow it to be used from the command line. - Copy the
runtimedirectory to a location thathxsearches for runtime files. A typical location on Linux/macOS is~/.config/helix/runtime.
To see the runtime directories that hx searches, run hx --health. If necessary, you can override the default runtime location by setting the HELIX_RUNTIME environment variable.