Installing Acquia Dev Desktop from the command line

Important

End of Support notice! Acquia has stopped support for Dev Desktop on June 30, 2021. Acquia recommends that you transition to Acquia Cloud IDE for a managed development environment on Cloud Platform. For more information, see Migrating from Dev Desktop to Cloud IDE.

Acquia also provides limited integration with open source alternatives to Cloud IDE for local development. For more information, see Local development solutions.

The primary way to install Acquia Dev Desktop is to use the prompted installer, as described in Installing Acquia Dev Desktop. As an alternative, you can install Acquia Dev Desktop from a command line on Windows or macOS. To use the command line installer, download Acquia Dev Desktop from the Acquia Downloads page, and then follow the instructions for your operating system.

Installing from the command line on Windows¶

Change directories to the directory where you saved the downloaded Acquia Dev Desktop installer:
```
cd \Downloads
```

Run the installer:

AcquiaDevDesktop***.exe  --<optional arguments>

For example:

AcquiaDevDesktop***.exe --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui minimal

Installing from the command line on macOS¶

Mount the installation .dmg with a command like:

hdiutil attach /path/to/acquia dev desktop.dmg

Change directories to the Acquia Dev Desktop installer:

cd /Volumes/"Acquia Dev Desktop Installer"
cd "Acquia Dev Desktop Installer.app"/Contents/MacOS

Run the installer:

./installbuilder.sh  --<optional arguments>

For example:

./installbuilder.sh --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui minimal

Installer arguments¶

The installer script takes the following arguments on either Windows or macOS:

Argument	Description	Allowed and default values
`--mode <mode>`	Installation mode	`osx` (default): Use the macOS interface (macOS only) `text`: Use text prompts on the command line `unattended`: Use mode specified with the `--unattendedmodeui` argument, with input from a text file specified with the `--optionfile` argument
`--unattendedmodeui <mode>`	UI to use in unattended installation mode	`none` (default) `minimal` `minimalWithDialogs`
`--optionfile <optionfile>`	The path to a text file that includes installation options
`--admUsername <admin username>`	Username for the admin account
`--admPass <admin password>`	Password for the admin account
`--admEmail <admin email>`	Email address for the admin account
`--debuglevel <debuglevel>`	Debug information level of verbosity	`0 1 2` (default) `3 4`
`--debugtrace <debugtrace>`	The path of a file that the installer should write debug information to
`--installer-language <language code>`	Language to run installer in	`en` (default) `ar bg ca da nl et fr fi de el es es_AR he hr hu it ja ko pl pt_BR pt ro ru no sl sk sq sv tr zh_TW zh_CN va cy cs`
`--licenseagree <licenseagree>`	Agreement to the license	1 (default)
`--installDir <installDir>`	The directory to install Dev Desktop in	`/Applications/acquia-dev-desktop`
`--siteDir <siteDir>`	The site directory	`/Users/<username>/Sites/acquia-dev-desktop`. A tilde (~) within quotes is not expanded by the installer to its value. Therefore, if the path is `~/sites/example`, use either `--siteDir ~/sites/example` or `--siteDir "$HOME/sites/example"`.
`--apachePort <apachePort>`	Apache web server port number	`8082`
`--mysqlPort <mysqlPort>`	MySQL database port number	`33066`
`--siteName <siteName>`	Site name	`My Lightning website`
`--help`	The list of valid arguments for the installer script
`--version`	Product information for Acquia Dev Desktop

Installing from the command line on Windows¶

Installing from the command line on macOS¶

Installer arguments¶

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