Install Applications from Github

In this chapter we will make use of the Foxx manager as described before. This time we want to install an app out of our version control hosted on github.com. That means the Foxx-manager does not know about the application information and we cannot install it simply by its name.

In order to install an application we need three informations:

• Repository: The name of the repository.
• Username: The username of the user owning the repository.
• Version: Branch or Tag name available on the repository.

As an example, we would like to install https://www.github.com/arangodb/hello-foxx. The username is arangodb, the repository is hello-foxx. If we do not define a version it will automatically install the master branch.

unix> foxx-manager install git:arangodb/hello-foxx /example
Application hello-foxx version 1.5.0 installed successfully at mount point /example

The hello-foxx app has defined a tag for version 1.4.4 that is named “v1.4.4”. We can simply append this tag in the install command:

unix> foxx-manager install git:arangodb/hello-foxx:v1.4.4 /legacy
Application hello-foxx version 1.4.4 installed successfully at mount point /legacy

This reference for github repositories can be used in all functions of the Foxx-manager that allow to install Foxx applications:

• install

unix> foxx-manager install git:arangodb/hello-foxx:v1.4.4 /legacy
Application hello-foxx version 1.4.4 installed successfully at mount point /legacy

• replace

unix> foxx-manager replace git:arangodb/hello-foxx:v1.4.4 /legacy
Application hello-foxx version 1.4.4 installed successfully at mount point /legacy

• upgrade

unix> foxx-manager upgrade git:arangodb/hello-foxx:v1.5.0 /legacy
Application hello-foxx version 1.5.0 installed successfully at mount point /legacy