How to install bun

Bun is a runtime and package manager that favours speed over long-standing convention. This page carries no procedure of its own; it records what the project is and what to look at before touching it.

How it gets there

The route varies. Some projects publish to system repositories, some to a registry, some only as source that a dedicated build tool consumes.

Who is behind it

The project is self-governed. Whoever maintains it chooses what ships and when, and writes the accompanying material.

Prior checks

Check platform support first. Recent work in this space generally assumes a current runtime and a reasonably modern system.

Making sense of the result

Most unexpected behaviour traces back to resolution rather than to the project. An older copy sitting earlier in the path, or a version manager pointing somewhere else, will do it every time.

Scope of this site

These pages exist as notes. No files are hosted, and no project material is reproduced on this domain.

A note on older machines

Hardware age matters more than people expect here. Recent releases tend to assume modern runtimes and current system libraries, so an ageing machine can rule out the newest version entirely.