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
andgzip
). 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.
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On Linux you might need to install the git in case it is not present (e.g.
sudo apt-get install git
orsudo yum install git-core
) -
On MacOS you only need to download and install git for mac.
-
The latest release of IDEasy
can be downloaded from here.
Create a central folder projects
folder (on Windows use C:\projects
or D:\projects
, on Linux or Mac use ~/projects
but ensure your home path does not contain space or other special characters).
Inside this folder, create a sub-folder named _ide
and extract the contents of the downloaded archive (ide-cli-*.tar.gz
) to this new folder (e.g. C:\projects\_ide
).
Run the command setup
in this folder (on windows double clicking on setup.bat
).
To get started read the usage.
Note
|
We are planning to create a installer that will guide users through the installation process but this is not yet released. |
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 softwares remain locally in your IDEasy folder.
However, there are the following excuses (what is reverted by ide uninstall
):
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The
ide
command is copied to your home directory (~/.ide/scripts/ide
) -
The
ide
alias is added to your shell config (~/.bashrc
and~/.zshrc
, search foralias ide="source ~/.ide/scripts/ide"
). -
On Windows the
ide.bat
command is copied to your home directory (%USERPROFILE%\.ide\scripts\ide.bat
) -
On Windows this
%USERPROFILE%\.ide\scripts
directory is added to thePATH
of your user. -
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.
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.
You can therefore find the latest IDEasy SNAPSHOT releases here.
Simply choose the latest SNAPSHOT version folder and then inside the *.tar.gz
file for the latest version.
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!