Installation

Regardless of where you place the box binary, the first time you execute it, a .CommandBox folder will be created in your user's home directory and CommandBox will be extracted into that location. If you delete this directory, it will be replaced the next time the CommandBox executable is run.

You can specify a different install location by adding -commandbox_home=E:\CommandBox when you run the box binary.

To avoid specifying the commandbox_home variable every time you can create a file called commandbox.properties (case sensitive) in the same directory as the binary, and fill it with this line:

commandbox_home=E:\\CommandBox

The CommandBox home can also be a path relative to the location of the commandbox.properties file.

commandbox_home=../boxHome

Windows

Unzip the executable box.exe and just double click on it to open the shell. When you are finished running commands, you can just close the window, or type exit.

Hint You can make the box.exe available in any Windows terminal by adding its location to the PATH system environment variable. See http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm

Mac/ *Unix

Homebrew (Mac)

Homebrew is a great Mac package manager, it can easily install and keep your CommandBox installation up to date (even binary releases), just run the following for stable releases:

brew install commandbox

To stay with current bleeding edge releases use the following:

brew tap ortus-solutions/homebrew-boxtap
brew install --head ortus-solutions/homebrew-boxtap/commandbox

Then run the box binary to begin the one-time unpacking process.

Versions will be installed in /usr/local/Cellar/commandbox. To switch between versions, simply use brew switch commandbox [version number]

If you want to use a commandbox.properties file as mentioned above, your box binary file will be in the /usr/local/Cellar/commandbox/<version>/libexec/bin/ directory where you should place your commandbox.properties file. There will also be a box binary in the /usr/local/Cellar/commandbox/<version>/bin/ directory where you should place the jre if you want CommandBox to use a version of Java that is different from your default version reported by java -version.

When using Homebrew to install CommandBox you must use Homebrew for any upgrade, minor or major. To upgrade CommandBox with Homebrew:

brew upgrade commandbox

NOTE: If you use Homebrew to upgrade your version of CommandBox it will erase your /usr/local/Cellar/commandbox/<current_version>/ folder. So before upgrading, take a copy of your /usr/local/Cellar/commandbox/<current_version>/libexec/bin/commandbox.properties file to drop back into /usr/local/Cellar/commandbox/<new_version>/libexec/bin/ before running box for the first time after upgrading.

Manual Installation

Unzip the binary box and just double click on it to open the shell terminal. When you are finished running commands, you can just close the window, or type exit.

Hint You can place the binary in your /usr/bin directory so it can be available system-wide via the box command in any terminal window.

Linux apt-get

Please note that if you are running Ubuntu 18.04 or greater, or Debian 8 (Jessie) or greater, it's necesarry to have the libappindicator-dev package in order to have the tray icon working correctly.

sudo apt install libappindicator-dev

Run the following series of commands to add the Ortus signing key, register our Debian repo, and install CommandBox.

Stable

( This first install routine also works for the Raspberry Pi. )

curl -fsSl https://downloads.ortussolutions.com/debs/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://downloads.ortussolutions.com/debs/noarch /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/commandbox.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https commandbox

If you do not have Java installed you can install it with the following command.

sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk

Then run the box binary to begin the one-time unpacking process.

Linux yum

Stable

Add the following to: /etc/yum.repos.d/commandbox.repo

[CommandBox]
name=CommandBox $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://downloads.ortussolutions.com/RPMS/noarch
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=0

Then run:

sudo yum update && yum install commandbox

Debian Linux manual install

After you have downloaded the commandbox.deb file, install it using the dpkg command.

sudo dpkg -i commandbox-debian-1.2.3.deb

Run the box binary to begin the one-time unpacking process.

Redhat Linux manual install

After you have downloaded the commandbox.rpm file, install it using the rpm command.

rpm –ivh commandbox-rpm-1.2.3.rpm