Install Terraform Manually on Linux/macOS

Installing Terraform is very easy, it’s available as a single binary named terraform.

1. Download the zip archive

Go to the Terraform Downloads page and download the appropriate package for your system.

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$# Example downloading the 64-bit Linux zip archive
$wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.12.26/terraform_0.12.26_linux_amd64.zip

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$# Unzip the downloaded archive
$unzip terraform_0.12.26_linux_amd64.zip
Archive:  terraform_0.12.26_linux_amd64.zip
  inflating: terraform

If you don’t have unzip installed, then you can install it for example on Debian based systems:

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$sudo apt-get install unzip

View the list of locations in your PATH:

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$# The locations are separated by colons (:)
$echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

Move the terraform binary to one of the listed locations:

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$sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/terraform

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$# You should be able to run terraform from any location
$terraform version
Terraform v0.12.26

You can enable tab completion if you’re using bash or zsh.

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$terraform -install-autocomplete

Then you can use the Tab key to autocomplete Terraform commands.