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Installation

Requirements:

Install

Option 1: Cargo install

  1. Install pico-cli from the GitHub repository
cargo +nightly-2025-08-04 install --git https://github.com/brevis-network/pico pico-cli
  1. Check the version
cargo pico --version

Option 2: Local install

  1. Git clone Pico-VM repository
git clone https://github.com/brevis-network/pico
  1. cargo install from the local path
cd sdk/cli
cargo install --locked --force --path .

Rust toolchain

Pico uses the rust-specific rust toolchain version(nightly-2025-08-04) to build the program. The specific toolchain version can be found in the rust_toolchain file in the repository root.

rustup install nightly-2025-08-04

rustup component add rust-src --toolchain nightly-2025-08-04