Prerequisites — Fedora / RHEL¶
For the GitHub CLI (gh):
sudo dnf install 'dnf-command(config-manager)'
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://cli.github.com/packages/rpm/gh-cli.repo
sudo dnf install gh
Already present on most Fedora/RHEL installs: bash, coreutils (provides timeout, tr, sort, wc, etc.), grep, awk, sed, find
Install Claude Code:
The Claude Code setup guide lists the other install methods and covers authentication.
Log in to gh: run gh auth login. The installer downloads the prebuilt binaries through gh.
Only for a source build: when gh is missing or not logged in, or no prebuilt binary fits your platform, the installer builds from source. That needs cargo (Rust 1.89 or later, from rustup), and way-embed needs cmake and a C++ compiler. make deps in the app dir installs cmake and the compiler. See Finishing an install.