Getting Started

Downloading the pre-built binary

We build the DRE tool for Linux and for MacOS (Darwin). We tested on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04.

On Linux, you can download the tool with:

mkdir -p $HOME/bin
curl -L https://github.com/dfinity/dre/releases/latest/download/dre-x86_64-unknown-linux -o $HOME/bin/dre
chmod +x $HOME/bin/dre

On MacOS you can use the following:

mkdir -p $HOME/bin
curl -L https://github.com/dfinity/dre/releases/latest/download/dre-x86_64-apple-darwin -o $HOME/bin/dre
chmod +x $HOME/bin/dre

Make sure that $HOME/bin is added to your path. If it's not, you might get an error such as:

❯ dre
Command 'dre' not found, did you mean:
[...]

To fix this issue, you can run

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH

And you can also add this to your $HOME/.bashrc file (or the one appropriate for your shell).