github.com/dahs81/otto@v0.2.1-0.20160126165905-6400716cf085/website/source/intro/getting-started/install.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "intro" 3 page_title: "Install Otto" 4 sidebar_current: "gettingstarted-install" 5 description: |- 6 The first step to using Otto is to get it installed. 7 --- 8 9 # Install Otto 10 11 To get started with Otto, Otto must first be installed on your machine. 12 Otto is distributed as a [binary package](/downloads.html) for all 13 supported platforms and architectures. 14 15 ## Installing Otto 16 17 To install Otto, find the [appropriate package](/downloads.html) for 18 your system and download it. Otto is packaged as a zip archive. 19 20 After downloading Otto, unzip the package. Otto runs as a single binary 21 named `otto`. Any other files in the package can be safely removed and 22 Otto will still function. 23 24 The final step is to make sure that `otto` is available on the PATH. 25 See [this page](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14637979/how-to-permanently-set-path-on-linux) 26 for instructions on setting the PATH on Linux and Mac. 27 [This page](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1618280/where-can-i-set-path-to-make-exe-on-windows) 28 contains instructions for setting the PATH on Windows. For each of those 29 pages, refer to the question and accepted answer for best practices. Create 30 any files that they refer to that don't exist. 31 32 ## Verifying the Installation 33 34 After installing Otto, verify the installation worked by opening a new 35 terminal session and checking that `otto` is available. By executing 36 `otto`, you should see help output similar to the following: 37 38 ``` 39 $ otto 40 usage: otto [--version] [--help] <command> [<args>] 41 42 Available commands are: 43 build Build the deployable artifact for the app 44 compile Prepares your project for being run. 45 deploy Deploy the application 46 dev Start and manage a development environment 47 infra Builds the infrastructure for the Appfile 48 status Status of the stages of this application 49 version Prints the Otto version 50 ``` 51 52 If you get an error that Otto could not be found, then your PATH environment 53 variable was not setup properly. Please go back and ensure that your PATH 54 variable contains the directory where Otto was installed. 55 56 Otherwise, Otto is installed and ready to go!