How to install Hivemind on Linux

According to its homepage, “Hivemind is a process manager for Procfile-based applications. At the moment, it supports Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS.”

However, the documentation only provides installation instructions for macOS, and to build from source code, but nothing about Linux installation :(

I had lots of trouble installing this on my Linux machine until I found out the proper way to do it!

Guess what: you CAN install brew packages on Linux 🤯

Install brew

Follow the instructions in the official site and run:

/bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

After the installation is done, your terminal output will display the next steps. Something like:

Run these two commands in your terminal to add Homebrew to your PATH:
    echo 'eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /home/<YOUR-USER>/.bash_profile
    eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

These commands are important as they will allow you to run the packages you install with Homebrew. So make sure you copy and paste those 2 commands on your terminal.

You may want to check your installation by running

brew --version

You might receive a message like this:

Command 'brew' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install linuxbrew-wrapper

So go ahead and install that package.

After that, you’ll be ready to install packages with Brew! 🎉

Install Hivemind

Now that we have brew installed, we can simply run

brew install hivemind

If you want to check your installation, go ahead and run

hivemind --version

You’re ready to go!