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Installing OpenTofu

Installing via direct download​

The most direct method to install OpenTofu is to download it from GitHub releases. Each GitHub release has an Assets section, where you can find the zip archive for your platform and download it.

Once you download a zip archive from there, you can unzip it and move the tofu binary into your $PATH, e.g. into /usr/local/bin on many Unix operating systems.

You could, for example, run these commands:

wget https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/releases/download/v1.6.0-alpha2/tofu_1.6.0-alpha2_darwin_arm64.zip
unzip tofu_1.6.0-alpha2_darwin_arm64.zip
mv tofu /usr/local/bin/tofu

to install OpenTofu on an arm64 MacOS system.

You can find the latest GitHub release of OpenTofu here.

Installing on MacOS​

Homebrew​

OpenTofu is available in the Homebrew Core repository, so you can install it by running:

brew install opentofu

Installing on Linux​

OpenTofu is available via PackageCloud and Snapcraft

Debian and derivatives:​

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/opentofu/tofu/script.deb.sh -o /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh
# Inspect the downloaded script at /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh before running
sudo bash /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh
rm /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh

sudo apt install tofu

RedHat and derivatives:​

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/opentofu/tofu/script.rpm.sh -o /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh
# Inspect the downloaded script at /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh before running
sudo bash /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh
rm /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh

sudo yum install tofu

Ubuntu (Snapcraft)​

If you're on Ubuntu and using Snapcraft you can install OpenTofu by running:

snap install opentofu