Install

Baudelaire is a single binary with no runtime dependencies. The Typst compiler is built in, so there is nothing else to install.

Prebuilt binary

The quickest path, no Rust toolchain needed. Prebuilt binaries are published for Linux x86_64 and aarch64. The installer downloads the release tarball, verifies its checksum, and drops baudelaire in ~/.local/bin.

It is deliberately readable, so fetch it, skim it, then run it:

curl -fsSL https://baudelaire.cstef.dev/install.sh -o install.sh
less install.sh          # read before you run
sh install.sh

Set PREFIX= to install elsewhere, or VERSION=vX.Y.Z to pin a release.

With cargo

If you have a Rust toolchain, Cargo can install it three ways:

cargo binstall baudelaire     # prebuilt tarball, no compile
cargo install baudelaire      # build from crates.io
cargo install --git https://codeberg.org/cstef/baudelaire   # build from git

cargo binstall pulls the same release tarballs as the installer script; cargo install builds from source (slower, but works on any platform Rust targets).

From a checkout

Working on baudelaire itself? Build and install from the repo:

just install

Confirm it works

baudelaire --version

Prefer it short? Add an alias in your shell: alias bl=baudelaire.

Next: the quickstart.