Building Notation

The notation repo contains the following:

• notation - A CLI for signing and verifying artifacts with Notation

Building above binaries require golang with version >= 1.24.

Windows with WSL or Linux

• Build the binaries, installing them to:

  • ~/bin/notation

  git clone https://github.com/notaryproject/notation.git
  cd notation
  make install

• Verify binaries are installed

  which notation
  # expected output
  /home/<user>/bin/notation

  If you confront notation not found, please add ~/bin/ to your $PATH:

  PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"

  If you would like to add the path permanently, add the command to your shell profile:

  echo 'PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"' >> $profile_path
  source $profile_path

  The profile_path per shell:

  • Bash: ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile
  • Zsh: ~/.zprofile
  • Ksh: ~/.profile