skip to content
Posts · September 2025

Getting Started

By Ewwii Articles·8 September 2025 ·2 min read

guide· outdated

There are 4 ways through which you can install ewwii:

  • Through your package manager (recommended).
  • Building yourself (recommended if not available on your package manager).
  • Through the installer.
  • Installing via Cargo.

Via Package Manager

Ewwii is currently available in the AUR. So if you are on Arch Linux, then you can install ewwii using your favourite aur package manager.

Using Yay:

Terminal window
$ yay -S ewwii

Using Paru:

Terminal window
$ paru -S ewwii

Building from source

If you are not on Linux or does not have ewwii available in your package manager, then this is the recommended approach for you. But before you continue, make sure that you have git and rust installed.

Step-1: Cloning

To start off, you should clone the repository of ewwii.

Terminal window
$ git clone https://github.com/Ewwii-sh/ewwii.git

Step-2: Checkout the cloned repository

Enter into the cloned repository with cd.

Terminal window
$ cd ewwii

Step-3: Building

Now that you are in the ewwii source code. Run the following command to start building it:

Terminal window
$ cargo build --release

Step-4: Moving to /usr/local/bin

Now that you compiled ewwii, you can find a binary named ewwii in ./target/release/. Now you have to copy that to /usr/local/bin so that it will be globally accessable.

Terminal window
$ sudo cp ./target/release.ewwii /usr/local/bin/

Using the installer

This is the simplest and fastest method through which you can install ewwii.

Simply run the following command and follow the instructions to have them installed in no time:

Terminal window
$ curl -sSL https://ewwii-sh.github.io/install.sh | install.sh

Installing through Cargo

Installing ewwii through cargo is not really recommended because it installs them to ~/.cargo/bin which is not a global destination. Sure, you may be able to access it, but other programs may not.

If really want to install through cargo, then you can run the commands shown below to install ewwii.

Installing ewwii through cargo:

Terminal window
$ cargo install --git https://github.com/Ewwii-sh/ewwii

Next steps

Now that you have ewwii, you can move on to the next step—reading the documentation.