# Add a tarball dependency (/docs/guides/install/add-tarball)

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Related: [Add a dependency](/docs/guides/install/add.md), [Add a development dependency](/docs/guides/install/add-dev.md), [Add an optional dependency](/docs/guides/install/add-optional.md), [Add a peer dependency](/docs/guides/install/add-peer.md), [Add a Git dependency](/docs/guides/install/add-git.md), [Install a package under a different name](/docs/guides/install/npm-alias.md)

Bun's package manager can install any publicly available tarball URL as a dependency of your project.

```sh terminal icon="terminal"
bun add zod@https://registry.npmjs.org/zod/-/zod-3.21.4.tgz
```

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This command downloads, extracts, and installs the tarball into your project's `node_modules` directory, and adds the following line to your `package.json`:

```json package.json icon="file-json"
{
  "dependencies": {
    "zod": "https://registry.npmjs.org/zod/-/zod-3.21.4.tgz" // [!code ++]
  }
}
```

***

You can now import `zod` as usual.

```ts
import { z } from "zod";
```

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See [`bun install`](/pm/cli/install).