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 \DownloadsRun the installer:
AcquiaDevDesktop***.exe --<optional arguments>For example:
AcquiaDevDesktop***.exe --mode unattended --unattendedmodeui minimal
Installing from the command line on macOS
Mount the installation
.dmgwith a command like:hdiutil attach /path/to/acquia dev desktop.dmgChange directories to the Acquia Dev Desktop installer:
cd /Volumes/"Acquia Dev Desktop Installer" cd "Acquia Dev Desktop Installer.app"/Contents/MacOSRun 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 |
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| Installation mode |
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| UI to use in unattended installation mode |
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| The path to a text file that includes installation options | |
| Username for the admin account | |
| Password for the admin account | |
| Email address for the admin account | |
| Debug information level of verbosity |
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| The path of a file that the installer should write debug information to | |
| Language to run installer in |
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| Agreement to the license | 1 (default) |
| The directory to install Dev Desktop in |
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| The site directory |
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| Apache web server port number |
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| MySQL database port number |
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| Site name |
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| The list of valid arguments for the installer script | |
| Product information for Acquia Dev Desktop |