Install

You can install only lssh, or the full tool suite.

Prebuilt binaries

Prebuilt binaries are available on GitHub Releases.

Linux (amd64, tar.gz)

VERSION=0.10.0
curl -fL -o /tmp/lssh.tar.gz \
  "https://github.com/blacknon/lssh/releases/download/v${VERSION}/lssh_${VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz"
sudo tar -xzf /tmp/lssh.tar.gz -C /tmp
sudo install -m 0755 /tmp/lssh_${VERSION}_linux_amd64/bin/* /usr/local/bin/

Debian / Ubuntu (.deb)

VERSION=0.10.0
curl -fL -o /tmp/lssh.deb \
  "https://github.com/blacknon/lssh/releases/download/v${VERSION}/lssh_${VERSION}_amd64.deb"
sudo apt install /tmp/lssh.deb

RHEL / Fedora / Rocky / AlmaLinux (.rpm)

VERSION=0.10.0
curl -fL -o /tmp/lssh.rpm \
  "https://github.com/blacknon/lssh/releases/download/v${VERSION}/lssh-${VERSION}-1.x86_64.rpm"
sudo dnf install -y /tmp/lssh.rpm

Package layout

lssh provides both a full suite package and smaller split packages.

Package	Includes	Best for
lssh-complete_*	all suite commands, bundled providers, and command completions	A single archive with the full suite plus provider-backed workflows
lssh_*	lssh, lscp, lsftp, lssync, lsdiff, lsshfs, lsmon, lsshell, lsmux, lspipe	Full installation of the entire tool suite
lssh-core_*	lssh	SSH access and forwarding only
lssh-transfer_*	lscp, lsftp, lssync, lsdiff, lsshfs	File transfer, diff, and mount workflows only
lssh-monitor_*	lsmon	Monitoring multiple remote hosts
lssh-sysadmin_*	lsshell, lsmux, lspipe	Parallel shell and multi-host operations
lssh-providers_*	bundled provider executables	Provider-backed inventory, connector, and secret workflows

go install

Install commands directly with Go:

go install github.com/blacknon/lssh/cmd/lssh@latest
go install github.com/blacknon/lssh/cmd/lscp@latest
go install github.com/blacknon/lssh/cmd/lsftp@latest
go install github.com/blacknon/lssh/cmd/lssync@latest
go install github.com/blacknon/lssh/cmd/lsdiff@latest
go install github.com/blacknon/lssh/cmd/lsshfs@latest
go install github.com/blacknon/lssh/cmd/lsshell@latest
go install github.com/blacknon/lssh/cmd/lsmon@latest
go install github.com/blacknon/lssh/cmd/lsmux@latest
go install github.com/blacknon/lssh/cmd/lspipe@latest

Provider binaries

Provider-backed inventory, secret, and connector features require provider executables in addition to the main cmd/* binaries. If you install only cmd/lssh, provider binaries are not installed automatically.

In v0.10.0, provider-backed inventory and secret workflows are best treated as beta. Connector-backed access beyond native SSH is still experimental, especially for non-SSH runtimes such as WinRM and cloud-managed connectors.

For local development, install the bundled provider executables with:

mise run provider_install

If you want the local source checkout to install the full suite, bundled providers, and shell completions in one step, use:

mise run complete_install

This installs the provider binaries under ~/.config/lssh/providers. The same task first builds the current provider set from this repository, including:

• provider-mixed-aws-ec2
• provider-connector-openssh
• provider-connector-telnet
• provider-connector-winrm
• provider-mixed-azure-compute
• provider-inventory-azure-compute
• provider-mixed-gcp-compute
• provider-inventory-gcp-compute
• provider-inventory-proxmox
• provider-secret-onepassword
• provider-secret-bitwarden
• provider-secret-custom-script

On macOS, the same release/install flow also includes provider-secret-os-keychain.

If you are using a release build instead of a source checkout, either:

• install the all-in-one lssh-complete_* archive for your platform, or
• install the matching lssh-providers_* release asset alongside the command package you want to use

Homebrew

brew install blacknon/lssh/lssh

Requirements

• Build from source with Go 1.25.1 or newer, matching go.mod.
• lsshfs uses a different local mount backend on each OS:
• Linux: FUSE support and a working fusermount/FUSE setup are required.
• macOS: mount_nfs is used locally, so the client must allow local NFS mounts.
• Windows: lsshfs is currently not supported.
• The repository intentionally replaces github.com/kevinburke/ssh_config with the vendored fork at ./internal/ssh_config so the generated config and parser behavior stay in sync with lssh.

Shell completion

Install completion files for bash, zsh, and fish:

make install-completions-user

To install under /usr/local instead:

sudo make install-completions

You can also install just one shell:

make install-completions-user COMPLETION_SHELL=zsh
make install-completions-user COMPLETION_SHELL=bash
make install-completions-user COMPLETION_SHELL=fish

If you use mise, the same flow is available as:

mise run completion_install
mise run completion_install_system

For user-level zsh installs, add this to ~/.zshrc if needed:

fpath=($HOME/.zfunc $fpath)
autoload -Uz compinit && compinit

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/blacknon/lssh.git
cd lssh
make build
sudo make install