ghr-bin 0.1.5

Install tools from GitHub releases

ghr

An installer for GitHub releases.

Usage

ghr install <owner/repo[@tag]>   Install a tool from a GitHub release
ghr uninstall <name>             Remove an installed tool
ghr list                         List installed tools
ghr upgrade [name]               Upgrade installed tools
ghr dir [--bin] [--cache]        Show ghr directories

Install

It can be installed using uv, pip, or downloaded from releases.

# uv
uv tool install ghr-bin

# pip
python3 -m pip install ghr-bin

Examples

# Install latest release
ghr install burntsushi/ripgrep

# Install a specific tag
ghr install burntsushi/ripgrep@15.1.0

# Show where tools are stored
ghr dir

# Show where binaries are symlinked
ghr dir --bin

Directories

Follows uv tool conventions.

Purpose	Unix	Windows
Binaries	~/.local/bin/	%USERPROFILE%\.local\bin\
Tool storage	~/.local/share/ghr/tools/	%APPDATA%\ghr\data\tools\
Cache	~/.cache/ghr/	%LOCALAPPDATA%\ghr\cache\

Override with GHR_BIN_DIR, GHR_TOOL_DIR, GHR_CACHE_DIR.

Uninstall

# uv
uv tool uninstall ghr-bin

# pip
python -m pip uninstall ghr-bin -y

License

MIT