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Deno Version Manager

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Easy way to manage multiple active deno versions.

Installation

You can install it using the installers below, or download a release binary from the releases page.

With Shell:

curl -fsSL https://deno.land/x/dvm/install.sh | sh

With PowerShell:

iwr https://deno.land/x/dvm/install.ps1 -useb | iex

Usage

➜  ~  dvm --help
Deno Version Manager - Easy way to manage multiple active deno versions.

USAGE:
    dvm [SUBCOMMAND]

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    completions    Generate shell completions
    help           Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    info           Show dvm info
    install        Install deno executable to given version [aliases: i]
    list           List installed versions, matching a given <version> if provided [aliases: ls]
    uninstall      Uninstall a given version [aliases: rm]
    use            Use a given version

Example:
  dvm install 1.3.2     Install v1.3.2 release
  dvm install           Install the latest available version
  dvm use 1.0.0         Use v1.0.0 release

Verify installation

To verify that dvm has been installed, do:

dvm -V

which should output dvm’s version if the installation was successful.

Initialisation

Calling dvm will creates an ~/.dvm/ directory if it doesn’t exist, and all installed versions of deno will put into ~/.dvm.

➜  ~  dvm
Creating /Users/justjavac/.dvm

Example

Listing versions

List all installed versions:

➜  ~  dvm list
 * 0.1.0
   0.1.1
   0.1.2

The version with a asterisk(*) means that this version is the version currently in use.

Switching version

➜  ~  dvm use 1.1.0
now use deno 1.1.0
➜  ~  dvm use 1.2.0
deno v1.2.0 is not installed. Use `dvm install 1.2.0` to install it first.

Compatibility

Known Issues

unzip is required

The program unzip is a requirement for the Shell installer.

$ curl -fsSL https://deno.land/x/dvm/install.sh | sh
Error: unzip is required to install dvm (see: https://github.com/justjavac/dvm#unzip-is-required).

When does this issue occur?

During the install.sh process, unzip is used to extract the zip archive.

How can this issue be fixed?

You can install unzip via brew install unzip on MacOS or apt-get install unzip -y on Linux(Ubuntu,Debian,Deepin).

License

Deno Version Manager(dvm) is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.