In case your favourite package manager provides an up to date version of cmus (see list of cmus packages ), installation is straightforward, e.g.:Otherwise, please consider compiling from source — it is not hard at all.cmus comes with a great reference manual. If you have it installed, try man cmus and man cmus-remote

Stable Releases

Bleeding Edge

If you want to help cmus development and be among the first to try the latest and greatest features, use the master branch, e.g.:

git clone https://github.com/cmus/cmus.git cd cmus ./configure prefix=$HOME/cmus make install

You may want to add the installation directory to your PATH, e.g.:

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/cmus/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc ; . ~/.bashrc

Don't hesitate to submit an issue if you have any problems, suggestions or bug reports.