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Version: 11 & 12

pnpm setup

This command is used by the standalone installation scripts of pnpm. For instance, in https://get.pnpm.io/install.sh.

Setup does the following actions:

  • creates a home directory for the pnpm CLI
  • adds the pnpm home directory to the PATH by updating the shell configuration file
  • copies the pnpm executable to the pnpm home directory

Since v11.18.0, when running on GitHub Actions, pnpm setup also appends PNPM_HOME and the global bin directory to the GitHub Actions environment files (GITHUB_ENV and GITHUB_PATH), so later steps in the same job can run pnpm add --global and other global commands.

tip

After upgrading to pnpm v11, run pnpm setup to update your shell configuration. In v11, globally installed binaries are stored in a bin subdirectory of PNPM_HOME.