Bfg-repo-cleaner: How to install?

[Pithikos]

Why are there still no instructions on how to install? Googling doesn't give much helpful info on how to go about it on Ubuntu.

[javabrett]

Is #196 any help?

[DRpandaMD]

++ To this. I downloaded the .jar today 12/12/2017 and it refuses to launch. I re-updated my JRE and still no bueno. MacOSX High Sierra. Shame this isn't in homebrew or something of the sort.

[tflo]

You also have to update/install the JDK.

BTW, bfg _is_ in Homebrew. And IIRC when installing via Homebrew you even get a reminder to install the JDK.

– Tom

[DRpandaMD]

thanks :)

[vernondcole]

A big Me Too on this subject. I have a mac, so finding out about homebrew here was great, but that info should have been easy to find, along with instructions how to install on my Ubuntu and Windows machines.

[johnnyutahh]

My experience bfg is a wonderful application. It's fast and does what it says. Great stuff.

On macOS, the homebrew install makes a clean, simple, /usr/local/bin/bfg command. Simple.

On Linux we have to... download (or even worse: build?) a .jar file? I've not had to do that for about a decade. Is it hard to make a Linux rpm or deb (preferably both) to enable a simple bfg command (on Linux)?

All in all - it's a relatively easy problem to solve as a user. I'm just trying to make it easier on my config control and our team's sysadmin (docs, team training, and execuation).

Thank you again for making a great tool!

[johnnyutahh]

Update: bfg install via Homebrew-on-Linux appears to work, automating all the java (and related) pkg installs and resulting in a bfg command--all just like on macOS. I ran these instructions (which feels quite a bit slower in my Ubuntu kvm virtual machine that on my MacBook Pro, even though the Ubuntu kvm VM has some decent specs: $80/mo on DigitalOcean) to install Homebrew on Ubuntu 18.04.4, and then I ran:

brew install bfg

bfg appears to work fine per some minimal testing I performed, in its usual snappy-performance self. My Homebrew install directory took up ~1.2GB of storage space.

[030]

For linux one could use ansible to install the bfg https://galaxy.ansible.com/030/ansible-bfg. If a deb has to be created as well, please let me know. Then I could create a PR in rtyley/bfg-repo-cleaner

[druvinskiy]

Hello, I am trying to install bfg, and I keep getting a command not found error. Any help would be appreciated.

[030]

@druvinskiy Did you configure the alias?

In all these examples bfg is an alias for java -jar bfg.jar

[firasm]

I notice that there are a couple of open PRs adding some installation instructions to this repo. Is there any interest in reviving them ? Do the project devs have a different idea of where to put the installation instructions?

Let me know if another (?) PR is welcome on this issue

[yiqiangjizhang]

Hello, I am trying to install bfg, and I keep getting a command not found error. Any help would be appreciated.

I tried installing bfg, I have Java version 1.8 but whenever I click on the installed file it does not open anything.