Installing software with asdf

There are many package managers… but using asdf I can switch between Macos and Linux and upgrade my tooling on a regular basis. These are my notes after installing.

Make sure asdf is installed and configured

Make sure you have asdf installed, and it is updated to at least 0.18.0. There were some breaking changes so you may need it reinstalling. Refer to the install asdf and configure asdf.

Find your plugin for the software you want to install. Let us pick terraform.

list all plugins

asdf plugin list all

Find the plugin from asdf-community

asdf plugin list all | grep asdf-community | grep terraform

terraform https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git

Add the plugin

asdf plugin add terraform

Find the version you are looking for

asdf list all terraform

1.13.0 1.13.1 1.13.2 1.13.3 1.13.4

install the version you are looking for

asdf install terraform 1.13.4

Downloading terraform version 1.13.4 from https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/1.13.4/terraform_1.13.4_linux_amd64.zip

The version is still not available

No version is set for command terraform Consider adding one of the following versions in your config file at /home/richard/.tool-versions terraform 1.13.4

Set the version

asdf set -u terraform 1.13.4

Terraform v1.13.4 on linux_amd64

Now for the aws cli

asdf plugin list all | grep asdf-community | grep awscli

No results…

asdf plugin list all | grep awscli asdf plugin add awscli

2.31.15 2.31.16 2.31.17 2.31.18

asdf install awscli 2.31.18 asdf set -u awscli 2.31.18

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