Particle CLI Setup Failed on Ventura macOS

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Pardon the newbie here, but I find myself stymied at step one.

Attempting to install/setup Particle CLI for the first time on iMac running macOS Ventura 13.7.6.

When running the suggested Terminal command:
bash <( curl -sL https://particle.io/install-cli )

I receive the following response:
PARTICLE CLI SETUP...
:::: Installing the Particle CLI for darwin x64
:::: Downloading CLI version
curl: option : blank argument where content is expected
curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information
gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
:::: The Particle CLI has been installed to: "/Users/(myusername)/bin/particle" and this directory
:::: has been added to your $PATH

blah, blah, Close Terminal, etc….

Although the last statement indicates Particle CLI has been installed it hasn’t - and any/all subsequently used ‘particle’ commands result in no response - simply a new line feed to new prompt.

I appreciate any insight(s) or suggestions as to how I might get passed this.

Thanks in advance! Cheers.

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Hey Kahntagious

The script failed to download the JSON configuration file as far as I can tell, which caused the rest of the install to silently break.

To help debug this, can you try running the following commands and share the output:

# Check if the manifest can be fetched
curl -s https://binaries.particle.io/particle-cli/manifest.json | head -n 20

# Print your system architecture
uname -m

# Print your OS type
uname -s

# Print your shell PATH (in case ~/bin isn't active)
echo $PATH

# Check your curl version
curl --version

# Optional: test if jq is installed for JSON inspection
command -v jq

Let me know what you get - happy to help get it sorted with a little more info!

(also trying it again after a ‘rest’ is also something I hate to suggest, but did anyway…:slight_smile: )

3

Thanks you for jumping in on this, @mrlambchop !

Please find the relevant responses below:

% curl -s https://binaries.particle.io/particle-cli/manifest.json | head -n 20

{

"released_at": "2025-08-01T14:40:00.569Z",

"version": "3.40.1",

"channel": "main",

"builds": {

"linux": {

  "arm64": {

    "url": "https://binaries.particle.io/particle-cli/3.40.1/linux/arm64/particle.gz",

    "sha256": "725b2b2b90df0f6ecbfe9ce5af48037684ea3ca796982654da309f1bd70595fc"

  },

  "arm": {

    "url": "https://binaries.particle.io/particle-cli/3.40.1/linux/arm/particle.gz",

    "sha256": "1083dd939c76581efb6befbd815231d15d206dc4ea8653a8fed087b523640521"

  },

  "x64": {

    "url": "https://binaries.particle.io/particle-cli/3.40.1/linux/x64/particle.gz",

    "sha256": "745b9b47a8ff09adb92eee0f6d9925cecd907d0cca49808eabc60d7108941974"

  }

},

"darwin": {

% uname -m

x86_64

% uname -s

Darwin

% echo $PATH

/usr/local/opt/curl/bin:/Users/(myusername)/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/bin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin

% curl --version

curl 8.8.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin22.6.0) libcurl/8.8.0 (SecureTransport) OpenSSL/3.5.1 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.6 libidn2/2.3.7 libssh2/1.11.0 nghttp2/1.61.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.6.8

Release-Date: 2024-05-22

Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps ipfs ipns ldap ldaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp

Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli GSS-API HSTS HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz MultiSSL NTLM SPNEGO SSL threadsafe TLS-SRP UnixSockets zstd

% command -v jq

(returned nothing)

4

After a ‘rest’… the latest update from this morning’s effort.

Updated CURL version to latest as it appeared to be outdated. Ran same install command for Particle CLI and received same response:

% curl --version

curl 8.15.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin22.6.0) libcurl/8.15.0 OpenSSL/3.5.1 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.7 AppleIDN libssh2/1.11.1 nghttp2/1.66.0 ngtcp2/1.14.0 nghttp3/1.11.0 librtmp/2.3

Release-Date: 2025-07-16

Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps ipfs ipns ldap ldaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp ws wss

Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli GSS-API HSTS HTTP2 HTTP3 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM SPNEGO SSL threadsafe TLS-SRP UnixSockets zstd

% bash <( curl -sL https://particle.io/install-cli )

PARTICLE CLI SETUP...

:::: Installing the Particle CLI for darwin x64

:::: Downloading CLI version

curl: option : blank argument where content is expected

curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information

gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file

:::: The Particle CLI has been installed to: "/Users/(myusername)/bin/particle" and this directory

:::: has been added to your $PATH

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