Installation

Homebrew

Homebrew (macOS and Linux, Intel + ARM) is the easiest way to install:

brew install asheliahut/tap/deaddrop

That one command adds the asheliahut/tap tap and installs the prebuilt release binary (the static musl build on Linux). You also get:

bash, zsh and fish completions, loaded automatically, with no extra setup
the example config at $(brew --prefix)/share/deaddrop/config.example.toml
no Gatekeeper prompt on macOS. The release binaries aren’t notarized, but Homebrew doesn’t quarantine what it installs.

The tap updates on every stable release:

brew upgrade deaddrop                                  # update
brew uninstall deaddrop && brew untap asheliahut/tap   # remove

Prebuilt binaries

Prebuilt binaries are attached to every GitHub release, together with a combined SHA256SUMS file:

Platform	Targets
Linux (glibc)	`x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu`, `aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu`
Linux (static musl)	`x86_64-unknown-linux-musl`, `aarch64-unknown-linux-musl`
macOS	`aarch64-apple-darwin` (Apple Silicon), `x86_64-apple-darwin` (Intel)
Windows	`x86_64-pc-windows-msvc`, `aarch64-pc-windows-msvc`

Archives are named deaddrop-<version>-<target>.tar.gz (.zip on Windows) and contain the binary, README.md, config.example.toml and LICENSE.

VERSION=v1.0.0
TARGET=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl   # static build; or aarch64-unknown-linux-musl, *-linux-gnu
curl -LO "https://github.com/asheliahut/deaddrop/releases/download/$VERSION/deaddrop-$VERSION-$TARGET.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "deaddrop-$VERSION-$TARGET.tar.gz"
sudo install "deaddrop-$VERSION-$TARGET/deaddrop" /usr/local/bin/

VERSION=v1.0.0
TARGET=aarch64-apple-darwin        # or x86_64-apple-darwin on Intel
curl -LO "https://github.com/asheliahut/deaddrop/releases/download/$VERSION/deaddrop-$VERSION-$TARGET.tar.gz"
tar -xzf "deaddrop-$VERSION-$TARGET.tar.gz"
sudo install "deaddrop-$VERSION-$TARGET/deaddrop" /usr/local/bin/

$v = "v1.0.0"
$t = "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"      # or aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/asheliahut/deaddrop/releases/download/$v/deaddrop-$v-$t.zip" -OutFile deaddrop.zip
Expand-Archive deaddrop.zip -DestinationPath .
# then move deaddrop-$v-$t\deaddrop.exe somewhere on your PATH

Verify the download

Each archive has a .sha256 file next to it, and SHA256SUMS lists them all:

curl -LO "https://github.com/asheliahut/deaddrop/releases/download/$VERSION/SHA256SUMS"
sha256sum --check --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS     # macOS: shasum -a 256 -c --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS

Verify build provenance

macOS and Linux tarballs carry signed build provenance proving they were built by the deaddrop repo’s release workflow. Verify one with the GitHub CLI:

gh attestation verify "deaddrop-$VERSION-$TARGET.tar.gz" --repo asheliahut/deaddrop

From source

You need Rust 1.95 or newer (deaddrop uses the 2024 edition):

cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/asheliahut/deaddrop

Or clone and build:

git clone https://github.com/asheliahut/deaddrop
cd deaddrop
cargo build --release --locked
./target/release/deaddrop --version

Set up shell completions.
Write a config file: deaddrop config example > ~/.config/deaddrop/config.toml.
Try the quick start.