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| title: Installing Bazel using Bazelisk |
| category: getting-started |
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| # Installing Bazel using Bazelisk |
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| This page describes how to install Bazel using Bazelisk. |
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| [Bazelisk](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk) is a launcher for Bazel which |
| automatically downloads and installs an appropriate version of Bazel. Use |
| Bazelisk if you need to switch between different versions of Bazel depending on |
| the current working directory, or to always keep Bazel updated to the latest |
| release. |
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| You can install Bazelisk in multiple ways, including: |
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| * using [a binary release](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/releases) for |
| Linux, macOS, or Windows |
| * using npm: `npm install -g @bazel/bazelisk` |
| * using Homebrew on macOS: `brew install bazelisk` |
| * by compiling from source using Go: `go install github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk@latest` (needs Go 1.17 or later) |
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| For more details, see |
| [the official README](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/blob/master/README.md). |
