Step 1: Downloading Packer
- Open your web browser and navigate to https://www.packer.io/downloads.
- Choose the appropriate version of Packer for your system. In this case, we would choose Linux as our operating system and AMD64 as the architecture.
- Once the download is complete, you should have a compressed file named packer_X.X.X_linux_amd64.zip, where X.X.X is the version number.
Step 2: Unzip Packer
- Open the terminal on your Elementary OS by pressing
Ctrl + Alt + T.
- Navigate to your Downloads folder by running the command
cd ~/Downloads.
- Unzip the Packer file by running the command
unzip packer_X.X.X_linux_amd64.zip.
- This will extract the contents of the compressed file into a new directory named packer_X.X.X_linux_amd64.
Step 3: Install Packer
- Copy the Packer binary file from the packer_X.X.X_linux_amd64 directory to the /usr/local/bin directory by running the command
sudo cp ./packer /usr/local/bin/.
- Alternatively, you can create a symlink to the Packer binary file by running the command
sudo ln -s ~/Downloads/packer_X.X.X_linux_amd64/packer /usr/local/bin/.
- Verify that Packer is installed correctly by running the command
packer version.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Packer on your Elementary OS system!
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