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Quick Start Guide

Installing the CLI

To manage your dotCloud applications, you need the Command-Line Interface client (CLI) installed on your computer. If you have previously installed an older version of the CLI, you may prefer to read Migrating to the CLI 0.9

Linux

Open Terminal and run the following command:

sudo easy_install pip && sudo pip install dotcloud

If you don’t have easy_install, you need to install it; preferably with your distribution specific packaging tools. On Fedora, RHEL, and other systems providing yum, you should run sudo yum install python-setuptools. On Debian, Ubuntu, and other systems providing APT, you should run sudo apt-get install python-setuptools. Then install pip and dotcloud as shown above.

Windows

Windows is not officially supported at this time. However, if you feel brave, here is how to get dotCloud running on Windows in less than one minute (not counting time to download).

  1. Start the Cygwin Setup.

  2. Select default choices until you reach the package selection dialog.

  3. Enable the following packages:

    • net/openssh
    • net/rsync
    • devel/git
    • devel/mercurial
    • python/python (make sure it’s at least 2.6!)
    • web/wget

  4. After the installation, you should have a Cygwin icon on your desktop. Start it: you will get a command-line shell.

  5. Download easy_install .. code-block:: none

  6. Install it .. code-block:: none

    python ez_setup.py

  7. You now have easy_install; let’s use it to install pip .. code-block:: none

    easy_install pip

  8. Now install dotcloud .. code-block:: none

    pip install dotcloud

That’s it! Remember to always go through the Cygwin shell when running “dotcloud”.

Note

If you already have Cygwin installed and are actually upgrading it when setting up dotCloud, you might have to do a “rebaseall”. If you see weird error messages in Cygwin after upgrading, read Cygwin Upgrades and rebaseall for a fix! (Thanks to Kevin Li for this tip!)

Mac OS X

To install, open your terminal and run the following command:

sudo easy_install pip && sudo pip install dotcloud

When the installation is finished, run “dotcloud setup” for the first time and enter your dotCloud credentials:

dotcloud setup

Note

Are you used to our old CLI? Head over to our Migrating to the CLI 0.9 guide.

Quick Start Guide