On https://strongback.gitbooks.io/using-strongback/getting_started.html#_running_the_strongback_cli_on_linux The section "Running the Strongback CLI on Linux" has refers to the macos binary instead of the Linux one, eg $ curl -L https://github.com/strongback/strongback-cli/releases/download/v1.2.2/strongback-cli-1.2.2-macos.tar.gz | tar -xvz instead of: $ curl -L https://github.com/strongback/strongback-cli/releases/download/v1.2.2/strongback-cli-1.2.2-linux.tar.gz | tar -xvz Turns out that macos binaries don't run too well on Linux. There is also some unexpected text on https://strongback.gitbooks.io/using-strongback/comparison_with_wpilib_commands.html#_strongback_requirable from strange characters to windtrainer results in the table.