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# Installation
Micro is devel-only for now because there is no released version.
This section gives instructions for how to simply install micro using the prebuilt binaries, or building from source.
### OSX
If you are on OSX, you can install micro using Homebrew:
```sh
brew tap zyedidia/micro
brew install --devel micro
```
### Arch Linux
If you are on Arch Linux, you can install micro using the AUR:
```sh
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/micro-git.tar.gz
cd micro-git
makepkg -si
```
### CRUX
If you are on CRUX, you can install micro using the 6c37-git repo:
```sh
git clone https://github.com/6c37/crux-ports-git
cd crux-ports-git/micro
# make sure you have go installed!
pkgmk -i
```
You can also install micro with a few package managers (on OSX, Arch Linux, and CRUX).
See the [wiki page](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/wiki/Installing-Micro) for details.
### Prebuilt binaries
To easily install micro on any of the operating systems listed below, just download the tar file,
extract it, and run the binary inside. It's as simple as that!
Micro has no released version, instead these binaries are compiled every night and you can find the
commit it was compiled with by running `micro -version`.
Nightly binaries:
* [Mac OS X](http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/binaries/micro-osx.tar.gz)
* [Linux 64](http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/binaries/micro-linux64.tar.gz)
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* [Windows 64](http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/binaries/micro-win64.zip)
* [Windows 32](http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/binaries/micro-win32.zip)
To run the micro binary just run `./bin/micro` (you may want to place the binary on your path for ease of use).
To run the micro binary just run `./bin/micro` (you probably want to place the binary on your `$PATH` for ease of use).
### Building from source
Micro is made in Go so you must have Go installed on your system to build it.
Make sure that you have Go version 1.4 or greater.
You can simply `go get` it.
```sh
go get -u github.com/zyedidia/micro/cmd/micro
```