Installation

Installation of Pygmy#

Prerequisites#

Make sure you have the following dependencies installed:

Docker, see the official guides on how to install docker on your system.
Go (optional), see the official guides

Installation#

Installing from homebrew (recommended for most users)#

Works for: Linux & MacOS

brew tap pygmystack/pygmy;
brew install pygmy;

Installing from a precompiled binary#

Releases on GitHub accompany binaries available for download.

To install it, put the binary into your system's $PATH environment variable and make it executable.

The following is an example of how you would do this, note the URL and location may change depending on your needs.

$ wget https://github.com/pygmystack/pygmy/releases/download/v0.8.0/pygmy-darwin
$ mv ./pygmy-darwin /usr/local/bin/pygmy
$ chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/pygmy

Build from source#

Pygmy comes with a Make file, which you can simply run make build && make clean to build binaries for Linux (amd64), Windows (x86) & MacOS (Darwin).

From here you can follow the guidance to install the relevant executable in the builds/ folder usign the instructions above.

Installing from source#

The installation of pygmy is fairly simple and can be accomplished via the go toolchain

$ go get github.com/pygmystack/pygmy