# Install just with Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget, zypper Handy way to save and run project-specific commands. Version 1.55.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-30. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:just ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install just ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install just ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/just/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add just ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: just from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install just ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: just from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install just ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: just from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#just ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ju/just/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S just ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: just from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install just ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: just from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - Chocolatey (92%): ```sh choco install just ``` Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: just from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','jetbrains-rider' - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install main/just ``` Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/just.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id Casey.Just -e ``` Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: Casey.Just from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:just - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.55.1 - **Source summary:** Handy way to save and run project-specific commands - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** CC0-1.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-30T08:35:51Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - just (cli) - just (alias) ## Build dependencies - rust ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 1.55.1 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-30 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/casey/just - Upstream latest detected: 1.55.1 (current) ## Project history and usage just is a cross-platform command runner for saving project-specific commands in a `justfile`. It borrows the familiar recipe shape of Makefiles but deliberately avoids being a timestamp-based build system. ### Project history Casey Rodarmor created the `just` repository on 2016-06-17. The project grew from a practical frustration with using `make` for non-build automation: developers wanted named commands, arguments, helpful errors, directory search, completions, and readable syntax without Make's build-system semantics. The official manual frames `just` as a command runner, not a build system. Recipes live in a file named `justfile`, `Justfile`, `.justfile`, or one of the documented fallback locations, and users invoke them as `just RECIPE`. Version 1.0.0 was published on GitHub on 2022-02-22. By 2026-07-01, the repository metadata showed more than 34,000 GitHub stars and regular release activity, indicating that `just` had moved well beyond a niche Rust utility. ### Adoption history The official README documents installation through package managers, prebuilt binaries, and Cargo. The input package metadata shows broad packaging across Alpine, Homebrew, Chocolatey, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Scoop, Ubuntu, winget, and openSUSE-family packages. Adoption has been helped by `just` being a single Rust-built CLI with no runtime dependency on a language-specific project stack. It fits repositories that want a shared entry point for testing, linting, formatting, release tasks, Docker commands, or local development setup. ### How it is used A repository usually stores recipes in `justfile`; running `just` lists available recipes, and running `just name args...` executes one recipe. The manual documents shell selection, dotenv loading, parameters, aliases, imports, modules, completions, and recipes written in arbitrary languages. The key usage boundary is that `just` does not replace Make for dependency-aware incremental builds. It replaces the common pattern of using Makefiles or ad hoc scripts as a menu of project commands. ### Why package nerds care just is significant because it became the package-manager-friendly version of a tiny team convention. A single binary plus a plain text `justfile` gives projects a predictable command surface without requiring contributors to learn an entire build system. For package nerds, it is also interesting as a Rust CLI that is packaged almost everywhere and competes with decades of Make muscle memory by being intentionally less powerful in the build-system sense. ### Timeline - 2016-06-17: The just GitHub repository is created. - 2022-02-22: just 1.0.0 is published on GitHub. - 2022-02-28: just 1.0.1 is published on GitHub with prebuilt release artifacts. - 2026-06-30: just 1.55.1 is published on GitHub. ### Related projects - GNU Make is the historical comparison point and the tool whose command-runner misuse just often replaces. - Taskfile and npm scripts are adjacent ways to publish project commands. - just-lsp provides Language Server Protocol support for editing justfiles. - Cargo is the Rust package manager used to install just from source or crates.io. ### Sources - - - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for just. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: justfile, Justfile, .justfile, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/just/justfile, ~/.config/just/justfile, ~/justfile, ~/.justfile ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** just - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - just - 1.40.0-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: just from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Save and run project-specific commands | https://github.com/casey/just - Nix - just: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ju/just/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - just - 1.21.0-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: just from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Save and run project-specific commands | https://github.com/casey/just - apk - just - 1.48.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: just from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Just a command runner | https://github.com/casey/just - apk - just-bash-completion - 1.48.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: just-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Bash completions for just | https://github.com/casey/just - apk - just-doc - 1.48.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: just-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Just a command runner (documentation) | https://github.com/casey/just - apk - just-fish-completion - 1.48.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: just-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Fish completions for just | https://github.com/casey/just - apk - just-zsh-completion - 1.48.1-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: just-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zsh completions for just | https://github.com/casey/just - dnf - just - 1.51.0-1.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: just from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Just a command runner | https://crates.io/crates/just - pacman - just - 1.52.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: just from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A handy way to save and run project-specific commands | https://github.com/casey/just - zypper - just - 1.51.0-1.1: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: just from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Commmand runner | https://github.com/casey/just - zypper - just-bash-completion - 1.51.0-1.1: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: just-bash-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Bash Completion for just | https://github.com/casey/just - zypper - just-fish-completion - 1.51.0-1.1: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: just-fish-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Fish Completion for just | https://github.com/casey/just - zypper - just-zsh-completion - 1.51.0-1.1: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: just-zsh-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Zsh Completion for just | https://github.com/casey/just - MacPorts - just: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/just/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Chocolatey - just: normalized package name match | Chocolatey community package catalog: just from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','jetbrains-rider' ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [go-task](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go-task/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, build-tool, cli, developer-tools, task-runner. - [mask](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mask/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, task-runner. - [run](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/run/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, task-runner. - [xc](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/xc/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, task-runner. - [dum](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dum/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, task-runner. - [ahoy](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ahoy/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, cli, developer-tools, task-runner. - [boot-clj](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/boot-clj/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: automation, build-tool, cli, developer-tools. - [cargo-make](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cargo-make/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-tool, cli, developer-tools, task-runner. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/just.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/just.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph