Installation

Install Script (Recommended)

The install script detects your OS and architecture, downloads the appropriate binary, and verifies the checksum:

curl -fsSL https://howth.run/install.sh | sh

This installs to ~/.howth/bin by default. You may need to add it to your PATH:

export PATH="$HOME/.howth/bin:$PATH"

Options

Set a specific version:

HOWTH_VERSION=v0.4.0 curl -fsSL https://howth.run/install.sh | sh

Custom install directory:

HOWTH_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/bin curl -fsSL https://howth.run/install.sh | sh

Using wget

If you don't have curl, the install script also supports wget:

wget -qO- https://howth.run/install.sh | sh

GitHub Releases

Download pre-built binaries directly from GitHub Releases.

Available targets:

Platform	Target	Archive
Linux x86_64	x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu	.tar.gz
macOS Apple Silicon	aarch64-apple-darwin	.tar.gz
macOS Intel	x86_64-apple-darwin	.tar.gz
Windows x86_64	x86_64-pc-windows-msvc	.zip

Each archive contains both howth and fastnode binaries.

Docker

Pull and run the official Docker image:

docker pull ghcr.io/jschatz1/howth:latest

Run a script:

docker run -v $(pwd):/app ghcr.io/jschatz1/howth run script.js

Use as a base image:

FROM ghcr.io/jschatz1/howth:latest
WORKDIR /app
COPY . .
CMD ["howth", "run", "index.js"]

Available tags:

• latest - Most recent release
• 0.4.0 - Specific version

Build from Source

Requires Rust 1.75 or later:

git clone https://github.com/jschatz1/howth.git
cd howth
cargo build --release

Binaries are output to target/release/howth and target/release/fastnode.

Verify Installation

howth --version