Installing Rover

The Rover CLI is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Installation Methods

Linux and MacOS `curl | sh` installer

To install the latest release of Rover:

curl -sSL https://rover.apollo.dev/nix/latest | sh

To install a specific version of Rover (note the v prefixing the version number):

Note: If you're installing Rover in a CI environment, it's best to target a specific version rather than using the latest URL, since future major breaking changes could affect CI workflows otherwise.

curl -sSL https://rover.apollo.dev/nix/v0.0.9 | sh

Windows PowerShell installer

iwr 'https://rover.apollo.dev/win/latest' | iex

To install a specific version of Rover (note the v prefixing the version number):

Note: If you're installing Rover in a CI environment, it's best to target a specific version rather than using the latest URL, since future major breaking changes could affect CI workflows otherwise.

iwr 'https://rover.apollo.dev/win/v0.0.9' | iex

npm installer

Rover is distributed on npm for easy integration with your JavaScript projects.

If you'd like to install rover within the devDependencies of your JavaScript project, you can run npm i --save-dev @apollo/rover. You can then call rover <parameters> directly in your package.json scripts, or you can run npx -p @apollo/rover rover <parameters> in your project directory to execute commands.

Note: When using npx, the -p @apollo/rover argument is necessary to specify that the @apollo/rover package provides the rover command. See npx's documentation for more information.

Manual download and install

If you'd like to call rover from any directory on your machine, you can run npm i -g @apollo/rover.

Note: Unfortunately if you've installed npm without a version manager such as nvm, you may have trouble with global installs. If you encounter an EACCES permission-related error while trying to install globally, DO NOT run the install command with sudo. This support page has information that should help to resolve this issue.

Without curl

You can also download the binary for your operating system and manually add its location to your PATH.

Connecting to Studio

After you install Rover, you should authenticate it with Apollo Studio, because many of its commands communicate with Studio.

Run the following command:

rover config auth

This command instructs you where to obtain a personal API key and helps you set up a configuration profile. For more information, see Configuring Rover.