Install

LocalUniverse runs in your terminal as a tiny CLI that opens a browser tab into the universe. There's nothing to configure — one curl, you're in.

Quick install

Paste this into a terminal on macOS, Linux, or Windows (WSL):

curl -fsSL https://localuniverse.io/install.sh | sh

The installer drops a single binary into ~/.localuniverse/bin and adds it to your PATH. About 12mb on disk. Most installs finish in under a second.

Manual install

Prefer to inspect the script first? You should — running anything piped to sh is trust-on-first-use. Either:

1. Download the script and read it: curl -fsSL https://localuniverse.io/install.sh -o install.sh && less install.sh
2. Grab a release binary directly from GitHub Releases and drop it anywhere on your PATH.

The repo is open source under MIT — read the installer source before running it, then run it.

Verify

Make sure the install worked:

localuniverse --version

If your shell can't find the command, restart it (the installer adds the bin path to your shell rc but won't re-source the running session for you).

Updating

The CLI checks for updates on launch and tells you when a new version is out. Update in place with:

localuniverse upgrade

That's it. Head to the Quickstart to get into your first session.