GVM is a tool for managing parallel Versions of multiple Software Development Kits on any Unix based system. It provides a convenient command line interface for installing, switching, removing and listing Candidates.

See documentation on the GVM Project Page.

Please report any bugs and feature request on the GitHub Issue Tracker.

Questions and disccusion at the Nabble Forum.

Installation

Open your favourite terminal and enter the following:

curl -s get.gvmtool.net | sh

If the environment needs tweaking for GVM to be installed, the installer will prompt you accordingly and ask you to restart.

Running the Cucumber Features

All GVM's tests are written in Cucumber and can be found under src/test/cucumber/gvm. These can be run with Gradle by running the following command:

./build.sh

Do not run Gradle directly! Doing so will delete your local GVM installation (with all installed candidates) on teardown of the tests.

Running the Server locally

Ensure that you have vertx installed and set up on your path. To start up the server locally, simply enter:

./run.sh

This will start the server on localhost:8080

To make your GVM installation work with your local server, edit the GVM_SERVICE variable in the ~/.gvm/bin/gvm-init.sh file as follows:

export GVM_SERVICE="http://localhost:8080"