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ivanacorovic
ivanacorovic

Reputation: 2867

How to install brew on Unix 13.10

I need to install fleetctl and I found a tutorial that says to use 

    brew install fleetctl

The thing is, I don't have brew installed, and when I follow this tutorial here and type 

    which brew

afterwards, nothing happens. So, how do I get brew working? I'm using Ubuntu 13.10

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1020

Answers (1)

Liyan Chang
Liyan Chang

Reputation: 8051

Brew, or Homebrew, is a package manager for OS X. Therefore, it will not work on Ubuntu, which is a Debian flavored Linux.

Package managers means that someone has precompiled source code. It doesn't look like Ubuntu's package manager, apt-get, has a precompiled version.

However, the creators of fleetctl have a compiled version here:

https://github.com/coreos/fleet > Releases > fleet-v0.8.3-linux-amd64.tar.gz

So on your box:

  1. Download it:

    $ wget https://github.com/coreos/fleet/releases/download/v0.8.3/fleet-v0.8.3-linux-amd64.tar.gz

  2. Untar it:

    $ tar -xvf fleet-v0.8.3-linux-amd64.tar.gz

  3. It's not installed yet, as you can see from which but it'll run:

    $ which fleetctl
/usr/bin/which: no fleetctl in (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/ec2-user/bin)

$ ./fleet-v0.8.3-linux-amd64/fleetctl

  4. (Optional but recommended) Install it by moving to /usr/local/bin

    $ sudo cp fleet-v0.8.3-linux-amd64/fleetctl /usr/local/bin

  5. You can prove that it's installed and run it from any directory:

    $ which fleetctl
/usr/local/bin/fleetctl
$ fleetctl

Upvotes: 1

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