Installing Gaffer

The Gaffer package is a self-contained directory, so you will need to manually install it, and later manually configure it, if necessary. Once extracted, the Gaffer directory contains the complete application, ready for use.

Note

In keeping with Linux/OSX best practices, we will demonstrate how to install Gaffer in the /opt/ directory. However, you could install it to any location on your file system to which you have write and execute access.

Installing in Linux

To install Gaffer in Linux:

  1. Download the latest Linux package of Gaffer.

  2. Open a terminal.

  3. Extract the archive:

    user@desktop ~ $ cd ~/Downloads
user@desktop ~/Downloads $ sudo tar -xzf gaffer-0.53.0.0-linux.tar.gz -C /opt/

Gaffer is now installed to /opt/gaffer-0.53.0.0-linux.

Installing in OSX

To install Gaffer in OSX:

  1. Download the latest OSX package of Gaffer.

  2. Open the terminal (Finder > Go > Utilities > Terminal).

  3. Extract the archive:

    MacBook:~ user$ cd ~/Downloads
MacBook:~/Downloads user$ tar -xzf gaffer-0.53.0.0-osx.tar.gz -C /opt/

Gaffer is now installed to /opt/gaffer-0.53.0.0-osx.