Install Yarn Ubuntu 16.04 (Linux Mint 18.1)
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There are instructions for several linux distributions
I was unable to install Yarn on Ubuntu 16.04 using the accepted answer but found it easy with npm:
npm install -g yarn
Then check install / version with
yarn --version
On Ubuntu Linux, you can install Yarn via Debian package repository. You will first need to configure the repository:
curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
Then you can simply:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
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