Ubuntu – How to download and install Heroku

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I downloaded Heroku from Heroku toolbelt using

wget -qO- https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh

in the terminal, which they recommended on their site. My Ubuntu (14.04.1) didn't recognize the -q0-, so I took it out. It then seemed to download fine – I see the in the directory I was in when i downloaded it.

Now, however, it still doesn't recognize heroku as a command. It also won't show me where it is with the 'whereis' command. But when I look in the current directory with ls -a, it shows up. It seems to be there.

How do I install it?

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Just tried this now on 14.04. Here is how I did it, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo wget -qO- https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh

Once it finished installing, I typed heroku apps. see image below for more info.

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That command actually is wget -qO not wget -q0.

It will download the file https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install.sh silently (-q option) and anything downloaded will be will be concatenated together and written to a single file buffer file (-O option), that downloaded buffer will then be pipped to and executed with sh.

sh is a shell interpreter that will run the information that wget just downloaded.

So, in simple words you are telling with this command: download this sh file and don't create a progress output and whatever you download execute it with sh.

Ubuntu – How to uninstall Heroku

So I downloaded the script and it seems that all it does is insert its own repository URL into your sources list and then uses the apt-get package manager to install it.

To remove, it is really simple, just open up a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get remove heroku-toolbelt

Also, as a word of warning, try not to use scripts written by others to install applications. Some of them can contain extremely dangerous commands which could cause irreversible damage to your data. If you are unsure how to install an application, you can always search Ask Ubuntu for similar questions and answers.

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