Other Ways to Install Filestar

The installer from the download page is the easiest way to get Filestar. If you would rather install it another way, these work today.

Windows: winget

winget is the package manager built into Windows 10 and 11. In a terminal, run:

winget install Filestar.Filestar

This installs the Filestar app and puts the Filestar CLI (filestarcli) on your PATH, without showing the installer's window. To install it only for you, without administrator rights, add --scope user:

winget install Filestar.Filestar --scope user

Filestar keeps itself up to date however it was installed (see How to Update Filestar). You can also update it through winget:

winget upgrade Filestar.Filestar

macOS: Homebrew

If you use Homebrew, run this in Terminal:

brew install --cask filestar/tap/filestar

This installs the Filestar app and the Filestar CLI (filestarcli). Homebrew asks for your Mac's password once, because the Filestar package installs for every user of the Mac. Filestar keeps itself up to date after that, so Homebrew does not update it. To remove Filestar again, run:

brew uninstall --cask filestar

Linux

Filestar for Linux is an AppImage that contains both the app and the CLI. See Linux for how to download, run and verify it.

For a server or any machine without a desktop, there is also a download with only the command line: see the command line only.

Command line only

If you only want the Filestar CLI (filestarcli), for example on a server or in a build pipeline, you can install it with npm or as a .NET tool. Both work on Windows (x64 and x86), macOS (Intel and Apple silicon) and Linux x64, and both install only the CLI, not the Filestar app. The CLI needs a plan that includes it: register it with filestarcli register <licence key>.

npm

With Node.js 18 or later, run:

npm install -g filestar

This installs only the Filestar CLI, as the command filestarcli. To run it once without installing it, use npx:

npx filestar <arguments>

To update it:

npm update -g filestar

.NET tool

With the .NET 10 SDK, run:

dotnet tool install -g Filestar

This installs only the Filestar CLI, as the command filestarcli. The tool carries its own runtime. To run it once without installing it, use dnx, which comes with the .NET 10 SDK:

dnx Filestar <arguments>

To update it:

dotnet tool update -g Filestar

The command line

For what the Filestar CLI can do and how to use it, see Filestar CLI.

Older systems

If your computer runs a version of Windows or macOS that the current release no longer supports, see older systems for the last release that still runs there.

More on the way

Chocolatey is coming and will be added to this page when it is available.