Installing on Ubuntu

The easiest way to install and uninstall Appsody on Ubuntu is to use apt.

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 Debian install package from the Appsody releases page. The file is named appsody_v.r.m_amd64.deb, where v.r.m indicates the release tag.
2. To install the package, run:

sudo apt install -f <path>/appsody_v.r.m_amd64.deb

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 Debian install package from the Appsody releases page. The file is named appsody_v.r.m_amd64.deb, where v.r.m is the release tag.
2. Open your terminal and change into the directory that contains your downloaded file.
3. Run the following command:

sudo apt upgrade -f ./appsody_v.r.m_amd64.deb -y

Uninstalling

To uninstall Appsody, run the following command:

sudo apt remove appsody

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