Before installing Lightdash CLI, you need to have NodeJS/NPM installed on your machine. To check that, run the following command in your terminal:
node -v; npm -v;
# it should print something like:
# v20.8.0
# 8.15.0
Run the following on your terminal to install the Lightdash CLI.
npm install -g @lightdash/cli
If you get an npm ERR! code EACCES error while installing the Lightdash CLI, follow this guide to resolve it.

Updating the Lightdash CLI

Update to the latest version

To update your Lightdash CLI to the latest version, run:
npm update -g @lightdash/cli

Update to a specific version

To update (or downgrade) to a specific version of the Lightdash CLI, run:
npm install -g @lightdash/cli@VERSION_NUMBER
Replace VERSION_NUMBER with the desired version. For example:
npm install -g @lightdash/cli@0.1743.1
You can check your current CLI version by running lightdash --version.

Once you’ve installed the CLI tool, you’ll want to authenticate it

Check out the guide on authenticating your CLI tool (login and setup an active project).