asdf

An extensible Version Manager.

Install via GitHub-hosted binary

[source]

$ ASDF_VERSION=0.20.0
$ curl -OL  https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/releases/download/v${ASDF_VERSION}/asdf-v${ASDF_VERSION}-linux-amd64.tar.gz
$ curl -OL https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/releases/download/v${ASDF_VERSION}/asdf-v${ASDF_VERSION}-linux-amd64.tar.gz.md5
# the output of md5sum and the contents of the md5 file should match.
$ md5sum asdf-v${ASDF_VERSION}-linux-amd64.tar.gz.md5
$ tar zxvf asdf-v${ASDF_VERSION}-linux-amd64.tar.gz
$ mv asdf ~/.local/bin/

Then, set configuration in ~/.bashrc.

# ~/.bashrc
$ export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
$ export PATH="${ASDF_DATA_DIR:-$HOME/.asdf}/shims:$PATH"
$ . <(asdf completion bash)

Test your installation.

$ which asdf
$ asdf -v

Add plugins for languages, tools, and install

$ asdf plugin add nodejs
$ asdf install nodejs latest
$ asdf global nodejs latest
$ node --version

Read how to set the current version of a language with asdf.

# fall-back to .nvmrc, .ruby-version, et al. when .tool-versions is not present
echo 'legacy_version_file = yes' > ~/.asdfrc