# Bootstrapping Crystal Shards ***Last Updated: Oct 2023*** For some reason Shards is not included with the standard [[Crystal]] programming language package in [[Solus]]. But as of late 2023 is now included in the standard repo and no longer needs to be compiled by hand. ```shell sudo eopkg install shards ``` If you still need to do compile `shards` from source for any reason, you can use these steps: ```sh sudo eopkg install yaml-devel git clone https://github.com/crystal-lang/shards.git cd shards/lib git clone https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal-molinillo.git molinillo cd .. make release=1 ln -s "$PWD/bin/shards" /opt/local/bin/ # or wherever you want it in your path ```