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Setup

Prerequisites

We try to make it as simple as possible for you. However, there are some minimal prerequisites:

  • You need to have a tool to extract *.tar.gz files (tar and gzip). On Windows before Version 10 (1803) use 7-zip. On all other platforms this comes out of the box.

  • You need to have git.

    • On Windows you only need to download and install git for windows.

    • On Linux you might need to install the git in case it is not present (e.g. sudo apt-get install git or sudo yum install git-core)

    • On MacOS you only need to download and install git for mac.

Download

The latest release of IDEasy can be downloaded from here.

Install

Extract the contents of the downloaded archive (ide-cli-*.tar.gz) to a new folder and run setup in this folder (on windows double-click on setup.bat).

To get started read the usage. After the installation process, you can create a new project by typing in bash: ide create <project>, replace <project> with your project name. Switch to the project folder e.g. cd <project> and install or configure tools for your project as needed (for further details click here).

Tweak installation location

The easiest way is to use your $HOME directory as installation target (e.g. by extracting the download inside ~/Downloads). In case your $HOME path contains whitespaces or special characters or you want to have your installation on a different partition (e.g. with more disc-space), special care is required. On windows simply create top-level folder like projects on the drive you want to install to (e.g. D:) and extract and install from there. On Linux or Mac you should always install to ~/projects but you may create a projects folder on a partition of your choice and create a symlink to it:

mkdir projects
ln -s $PWD/projects ~/projects
cd ~/projects
tar xvfz ~/Downloads/ide-cli-*.tar.gz
source setup

Uninstall

To "uninstall" your IDEasy you only need to call the following command:

ide uninstall

Then you can delete the projects folder if there is no project data left that you need.

IDEasy is designed to be non-invasive to your operating system and computer. Therefore it is not "installed" on your system in a classical way. Instead you just create a folder and extract the downloaded archive to it. All the other software remain locally in your IDEasy folder. However, there are the following excuses (what is reverted by ide uninstall):

  • The ide alias is added to your shell config (~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc, search for: alias ide=).

  • The completion is added to your shell config (~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc, search for: _ide/completion).

  • The IDE_ROOT environment variable is added to your environment variables.

  • The $IDE_ROOT/_ide/bin folder is added to your PATH environment variable.

  • IDEasy will download all third party software to your ~/Downloads/ide folder to reduce redundant storage. You have to delete this folder manually as we do not want to be responsible for data-loss in case users manually put files here.

Testing SNAPSHOT releases

You can find the latest IDEasy SNAPSHOT releases here.

Whenever a story in IDEasy is completed by merging a PR, our github actions will build a new SNAPSHOT release and on success deploy it to nexus on OSSRH. Simply choose the latest SNAPSHOT version folder and then inside that version folder the *.tar.gz file for the latest version and your target platform. Please open the download link in a new tab to make the download start properly.

Once downloaded, you can proceed as with official releases (see install).

If you test the latest SNAPSHOT please also give feedback to bug or feature tickets to let us know if things are working or not. Thanks for your testing, support and help to make IDEasy better!