Installing Helix Versioning Engine 15.2 on Linux

Without OS-specific packages

  1. Open a web browser.
  2. Navigate to http://www.perforce.com/downloads.
  3. Download the helix-versioning-engine-{x86,64}.{tgz,zip} file.
  4. Extract the Helix Versioning Engine (p4d) and Helix Command Line (p4) from the tgz/zip file.
  5. Open a Terminal window.

  6. Make the downloaded files executable:

    $ chmod +x Downloads/p4*

  7. Move the files into a common execution path:

    $ sudo mv Downloads/p4* /usr/local/bin/

With OS-specific packages

  1. Open a web browser.
  2. Navigate to http://package.perforce.com
  3. Follow the instructions to configure a package repository and install OS-specific packages.