Installing on RHEL

The easiest way to install and uninstall Appsody on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is to use yum.

Prerequisites

To avoid permissions problems on Linux hosts, your user account must be a member of the docker group, as detailed in the Docker documentation, which you can configure by running:

sudo usermod -aG docker <username>

Installing

Follow these steps:

1. Download the latest RPM install package from the Appsody releases page. The file is named appsody-v.r.m-1.x86_64.rpm, where v.r.m indicates the release tag.
2. To install the package, run:

sudo yum install <path>/appsody-v.r.m-1.x86_64.rpm

where <path> is the fully qualified path to the package.

You can now follow the Getting Started instructions to create your first containerized development environment with a running Hello World! application.

Upgrading

To upgrade Appsody on your system, follow these steps:

1. Download the latest RPM install package from the Appsody releases page. The file is named appsody-v.r.m-1.x86_64.rpm, where v.r.m is the release number.
2. Open your terminal and change into the directory that contains your downloaded file.
3. Run the following command:

sudo yum update appsody-v.r.m-1.x86_64.rpm -y

Uninstalling

To uninstall Appsody, run the following command:

sudo yum remove appsody

You might also want to remove the .appsody directory that gets created under your home directory: rm -rf ~/.appsody.