Installing Crane

Follow the procedure below to install the Crane tool.

1. Install the Crane binary.

Enter the following command to install the latest version of Crane binary.

curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/konveyor/crane/releases/latest |
jq -r ".assets[] | select(.name | contains(\"<arch>-<os>\")) | .browser_download_url" | wget -i-
chmod +x <binary>
cp <binary> /usr/bin/crane

Crane currently supports three architectures:

• amd64-linux
• amd64-darwin
• arm64-darwin

Run the following command to download the latest version of Crane for amd64-linux.

curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/konveyor/crane/releases/latest |
jq -r ".assets[] | select(.name | contains(\"amd64-linux\")) |
.browser_download_url" | wget -i-

Run the following command to download the latest version of Crane for amd64-darwin.

curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/konveyor/crane/releases/latest |
jq -r ".assets[] | select(.name | contains(\"amd64-darwin\")) |
.browser_download_url" | wget -i-

Run the following command to download the latest version of Crane for arm64-darwin.

curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/konveyor/crane/releases/latest |
jq -r ".assets[] | select(.name | contains(\"arm64-darwin\")) |
.browser_download_url" | wget -i-

2. Install the most recent version of Crane from the upstream main branch.

GOPATHshould be configured to build the project.

cd $GOPATH
git clone https://github.com/konveyor/crane.git
cd crane
go build -o crane main.go
cp crane /usr/bin/crane

Note: Install the released version instead of building from upstream main.

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