Installation Options

Homebrew

Stable Version

brew install colima

Development Version

brew install --HEAD colima

MacPorts

Stable version

sudo port install colima

Nix

Only stable Version

nix-env -i colima

Or using solely in a nix-shell

nix-shell -p colima

Arch

Install dependencies

sudo pacman -S qemu-full go docker

Install Lima and Colima from Aur

yay -S lima-bin colima-bin

Binary

Binaries are available with every release on the releases page.

# download binary
curl -LO https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/releases/latest/download/colima-$(uname)-$(uname -m)

# install in $PATH
sudo install colima-$(uname)-$(uname -m) /usr/local/bin/colima

Building from Source

Requires Go.

# clone repo and cd into it
git clone https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
cd colima
make
sudo make install