Installing nur

You do not need to have nu shell installed for nur to work. nur does include the whole nu runtime engine and will run as a standalone command. As of this it will run on any shell including bash, zsh, fish, powershell and or course nu shell. You can use nur on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

As of now nur is not available using common package managers. This is however no issue as cargo allows you to install packages into your own user directory.

You need to have cargo installed for this to work. See cargo install docs for details on getting cargo running.

Just run cargo install nur to install nur for your current user. The nur binary will be added in $HOME/.cargo/bin (or $"($env.HOME)/.cargo/bin" in nu shell). Make sure to add this to $PATH (or $env.PATH in nu shell).

POSIX shell example (like Bash, zsh, …):

> cargo install nur
> export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"  # put this into your .bashrc, .zshrc or similar
> nur --version

nu shell example:

> cargo install nur
> $env.PATH = ($env.PATH | split row (char esep) | prepend [$'($nu.home-path)/bin'])  # put this into $nu.env-path
> nur --version

Alternative installation methods

Both methods will also ensure nur is available in your $PATH.

MacOS

For MacOS you can use my unofficial Homebrew tap to install nur. All necessary steps are documented in the repository: https://github.com/ddanier/nur-homebrew
(This will allow you to just use brew install nur)

Windows

For Windows you can just use the provided binaries available in each release version. Note the .msi package might be the easiest to use: https://github.com/ddanier/nur/releases