Installation guide

The preferred way of installing Hare is using your local system package manager. The recommended package name is “hare”. If Hare is not available for your distribution, continue to Bootstrapping Hare from source.

Note

Once you have installed Hare, check out the General language introduction next.

Note

All Hare users are encouraged to subscribe to the low-volume hare-announce mailing list to be notified of new releases, breaking changes, and security updates.

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Supported platforms

Hare is supported on the following platforms:

Architectures

Architecture	Support status
aarch64	✓ Supported
riscv64	✓ Supported
x86_64	✓ Supported
armv6	… Planned
i686	… Planned
ppc64	… Planned
riscv32	… Planned

Operating Systems

Operating system	Support status
FreeBSD	✓ Supported
Linux	✓ Supported
NetBSD	✓ Supported
OpenBSD	✓ Supported
Illumos	… Planned
Haiku	… Planned
Plan 9	… Planned