Installing pgxman

The installer script works on both MacOS and Linux.

curl -sfL https://install.pgx.sh | sh -

After installation, pgxman will advise you on further requirements:

Linux: PostgreSQL
Docker
- on MacOS, Docker is used for our container support
- if you plan on contributing extensions, Docker is used to build extensions locally with pgxman build

You can run pgxman doctor at any time to check if you have everything you need to use pgxman.

MacOS: Homebrew

Use the homebrew tap to install pgxman:

brew install pgxman/tap/pgxman

You can download the latest compiled binaries and add them to your system’s executable path.

pgxman is compatible with the following Debian-based Linux distributions: