Installation

Three channels: Homebrew, a prebuilt binary, or Cargo. All of them install a binary named rover. Current release: v0.1.0.

Homebrew (macOS)

brew install aaronbassett/tap/rover

Ships the headless build but pulls in no browser — headless rendering is opt-in and Rover auto-detects a Chrome/Chromium install at runtime (rover doctor verifies it). For headless mode, install a browser yourself, e.g. brew install --cask chromium.

Prebuilt binary (Linux & macOS)

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/aaronbassett/rover/releases/latest/download/rover-fetch-installer.sh | sh

Or grab a .tar.xz from the latest release, verify its checksum, and move rover onto your PATH. Targets are x86_64 and aarch64 for Linux (gnu) and macOS, and both include the headless feature. Windows is unsupported.

With cargo

cargo install rover-fetch

The crate is rover-fetch (the name rover was taken); the installed binary is rover. This builds the default binary: no Chrome, no model downloads. Turn on Cargo features for more (see Optional features):

cargo install rover-fetch --features headless

For the latest unreleased code, install from the repo:

cargo install --git https://github.com/aaronbassett/rover --locked

Requires Rust 1.96+.

Verify

rover doctor

This checks that the cache database opens, the network is reachable, the extractive backend works, and any configured cloud backends authenticate. With the relevant features built, it also checks the headless browser and local models. For the full subcommand list, run rover --help.

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