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Installing Heroku

To install Heroku on CS/ECE systems, the standard instructions on the Heroku website will not work. A variation of the standalone install — see below — does work to put your own copy of Heroku in your home directory. Visit the Heroku CLI page to find the name of the appropriate package for CS/ECE systems. The name will be in the standalone version instructions. (The name below is accurate as of this writing.) Once you have that name:

% wget https://cli-assets.heroku.com/heroku-cli/channels/stable/heroku-cli-linux-x64.tar.gz
% gzip -dc heroku-cli-linux-x64.tar.gz | tar -xf -
% mkdir -p ~/heroku/bin ~/heroku/lib
% mv heroku-cli-v*-linux-x64 ~/heroku/lib/heroku
% cd heroku/bin
% ln -s ../lib/heroku/bin/heroku

To use your new install in the shell you just ran all of this in:

% setenv PATH ~/heroku/bin:$PATH

To use your new install in every shell you start from here on out, add the following line to your ~/.cshrc:

setenv PATH ~/heroku/bin:$PATH

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