Getting Started

Using mise typically involves 3 steps:

1. Installing the CLI
2. Activating mise or adding its shims to PATH optional
3. Adding tools to mise

Quickstart

1. Install mise CLI

First we need to download the mise CLI. See below for alternate installation methods. This directory is simply a suggestion. mise can be installed anywhere.

$ curl https://mise.run | sh
$ ~/.local/bin/mise --version
mise 2024.x.x

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"~/.local/bin" does not need to be in PATH. mise will automatically add its own directory to PATH when activated.

2a. Activate mise

mise activate is one way to setup mise but alternatively you can use shims, direnv, or skip this step entirely. If you skip it, then tools like npm and node will not be in PATH. You'll need to prefix commands with mise exec or run tasks with mise run in order to use tools managed with mise.

Make sure you restart your shell session after modifying your rc file in order for it to take effect. Also note that this uses ~/.local/bin/mise as the binary location since that's what https://mise.run uses by default. If you've installed mise by some other means it may be on PATH or somewhere different.

bash

echo 'eval "$(~/.local/bin/mise activate bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc

zsh

echo 'eval "$(~/.local/bin/mise activate zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc

fish

echo '~/.local/bin/mise activate fish | source' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish

2b. Alternative: Add mise shims to PATH

If you prefer to use shims, you can run the following to use mise without activating it. You can use .bashrc/.zshrc instead of .bash_profile/.zprofile if you prefer to only use mise in interactive sessions (.bash_profile/.zprofile will work in non-interactive places like scripts or IDEs).

bash

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/share/mise/shims:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

zsh

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/share/mise/shims:$PATH"' >> ~/.zprofile

fish

fish_add_path ~/.local/share/mise/shims

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You can also run mise activate --shims which will do the above for you.

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mise respects MISE_DATA_DIR and XDG_DATA_HOME if you'd like to change these locations.

3. Adding tools to mise optional

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Of course, if using mise solely for environment management or running tasks this step is not necessary.

Install node and set it as the global default:

$ mise use --global node@20
$ node -v
v20.x.x

If you did not activate mise or add its shims to PATH, then you'll need to run the following:

$ mise use --global node@20
$ mise exec -- node -v
v20.x.x

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Use mise x -- node -v or set a shell alias in your shell's rc file like alias x="mise x --" to save some keystrokes.

Alternate Installation Methods

https://mise.run

Note that it isn't necessary for mise to be on PATH. If you run the activate script in your shell's rc file, mise will automatically add itself to PATH.

curl https://mise.run | sh

Options:

• MISE_DEBUG=1 – enable debug logging
• MISE_QUIET=1 – disable non-error output
• MISE_INSTALL_PATH=/some/path – change the binary path (default: ~/.local/bin/mise)

If you want to verify the install script hasn't been tampered with:

gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0x7413A06D
curl https://mise.jdx.dev/install.sh.sig | gpg --decrypt > install.sh
# ensure the above is signed with the mise release key
sh ./install.sh

or if you're allergic to | sh:

macos-arm64

curl https://mise.jdx.dev/mise-latest-macos-arm64 > ~/.local/bin/mise

macos-x64

curl https://mise.jdx.dev/mise-latest-macos-x64 > ~/.local/bin/mise

linux-x64

curl https://mise.jdx.dev/mise-latest-linux-x64 > ~/.local/bin/mise

linux-arm64

curl https://mise.jdx.dev/mise-latest-linux-arm64 > ~/.local/bin/mise

It doesn't matter where you put it. So use ~/bin, /usr/local/bin, ~/.local/bin or whatever.

Supported os/arch:

• macos-x64
• macos-arm64
• linux-x64
• linux-x64-musl
• linux-arm64
• linux-arm64-musl
• linux-armv6
• linux-armv6-musl
• linux-armv7
• linux-armv7-musl

If you need something else, compile it with cargo install mise (see below). Windows isn't currently supported.

apk

For Alpine Linux:

apk add mise

mise lives in the community repository.

apt

For installation on Ubuntu/Debian:

amd64

apt update -y && apt install -y gpg sudo wget curl
sudo install -dm 755 /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -qO - https://mise.jdx.dev/gpg-key.pub | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/mise-archive-keyring.gpg 1> /dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/mise-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://mise.jdx.dev/deb stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mise.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y mise

arm64

apt update -y && apt install -y gpg sudo wget curl
sudo install -dm 755 /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -qO - https://mise.jdx.dev/gpg-key.pub | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/mise-archive-keyring.gpg 1> /dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/mise-archive-keyring.gpg arch=arm64] https://mise.jdx.dev/deb stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mise.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y mise

aur

For Arch Linux:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/mise.git
cd mise
makepkg -si

Cargo

Build from source with Cargo:

cargo install mise

Do it faster with cargo-binstall:

cargo install cargo-binstall
cargo binstall mise

Build from the latest commit in main:

cargo install mise --git https://github.com/jdx/mise --branch main

dnf

For Fedora, CentOS, Amazon Linux, RHEL and other dnf-based distributions:

dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core
dnf config-manager --add-repo https://mise.jdx.dev/rpm/mise.repo
dnf install -y mise

Docker

docker run jdxcode/mise x node@20 -- node -v

Homebrew

brew install mise

npm

mise is available on npm as a precompiled binary. This isn't a Node.js package—just distributed via npm. This is useful for JS projects that want to setup mise via package.json or npx.

npm install -g @jdxcode/mise

Use npx if you just want to test it out for a single command without fully installing:

npx @jdxcode/mise exec [email protected] -- python some_script.py

GitHub Releases

Download the latest release from GitHub.

curl https://github.com/jdx/mise/releases/download/v2024.1.0/mise-v2024.1.0-linux-x64 > /usr/local/bin/mise
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/mise

MacPorts

sudo port install mise

nix

For the Nix package manager, at release 23.05 or later:

nix-env -iA mise

You can also import the package directly using mise-flake.packages.${system}.mise. It supports all default Nix systems.

yum

yum install -y yum-utils
yum-config-manager --add-repo https://mise.jdx.dev/rpm/mise.repo
yum install -y mise

Shells

Bash

echo 'eval "$(mise activate bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc

Zsh

echo 'eval "$(mise activate zsh)"' >> "${ZDOTDIR-$HOME}/.zshrc"

Fish

echo 'mise activate fish | source' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish

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For homebrew and possibly other installs mise is automatically activated so this is not necessary.

See MISE_FISH_AUTO_ACTIVATE=1 for more information.

Nushell

Since Nu does not support eval the initialization script is saved in env.nu:

'
let mise_path = $nu.default-config-dir | path join scripts mise.nu
^mise activate nu | save $mise_path --force
' | save $nu.env-path --append
"\nuse mise.nu" | save $nu.config-path --append

If you prefer to keep your dotfiles clean you can save it to a different directory then update $env.NU_LIB_DIRS:

"\n$env.NU_LIB_DIRS ++= ($mise_path | path dirname | to nuon)" | save $nu.env-path --append

Xonsh

Since .xsh files are not compiled you may shave a bit off startup time by using a pure Python import: add the code below to, for example, ~/.config/xonsh/mise.py config file and import mise it in ~/.config/xonsh/rc.xsh:

from pathlib         import Path
from xonsh.built_ins import XSH

ctx = XSH.ctx
mise_init = subprocess.run([Path('~/bin/mise').expanduser(),'activate','xonsh'],capture_output=True,encoding="UTF-8").stdout
XSH.builtins.execx(mise_init,'exec',ctx,filename='mise')

Or continue to use rc.xsh/.xonshrc:

echo 'execx($(~/bin/mise activate xonsh))' >> ~/.config/xonsh/rc.xsh # or ~/.xonshrc

Given that mise replaces both shell env $PATH and OS environ PATH, watch out that your configs don't have these two set differently (might throw os.environ['PATH'] = xonsh.built_ins.XSH.env.get_detyped('PATH') at the end of a config to make sure they match)

Something else?

Adding a new shell is not hard at all since very little shell code is in this project. See here for how the others are implemented. If your shell isn't currently supported I'd be happy to help you get yours integrated.

Uninstalling

Use mise implode to uninstall mise. This will remove the mise binary and all of its data. Use mise implode --help for more information.

Alternatively, manually remove the following directories to fully clean up:

• ~/.local/share/mise (can also be MISE_DATA_DIR or XDG_DATA_HOME/mise)
• ~/.local/state/mise (can also be MISE_STATE_DIR or XDG_STATE_HOME/mise)
• ~/.config/mise (can also be MISE_CONFIG_DIR or XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mise)
• on Linux: ~/.cache/mise (can also be MISE_CACHE_DIR or XDG_CACHE_HOME/mise)
• on macOS: ~/Library/Caches/mise (can also be MISE_CACHE_DIR)