Network Updatable Things Services

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/ /\  / /_/ / /_(__  )   dev version 0.8.4.0 (accessible on thevpc.net)
\_\ \/\__,_/\__/____/    production version 0.8.3.1 (accessible on maven central)

Website : https://thevpc.github.io/nuts

nuts is a Java™ Package Manager that helps discover, download, assemble and execute local and remote artifacts (packages) in an easy and straightforward way.

Unlike Maven which resolves dependencies at compile time, nuts solves dependencies and builds the classpath at install time and, as a result, saves disk storage and bandwidth by downloading and caching only libraries required for the current environment and share them between multiple installed applications.

nuts is unique in that it reuses Maven and other build tool descriptor formats to solve dependency graphs, and does not, whatsoever, have any requirement on existing Maven created packages.

nuts is the ultimate solution to get rid of the ugly lib jars, fat-jars, uber-jars and one-jars used for deploying java applications.

This is just enough info to get you up and running nuts . Much more info is available on nuts documentation website. You can also have more information also browsing thevpc.net. Even more information is available via nuts help once it's installed.

To check current nuts version

nuts --version

It should show a result in the format : nuts-api-version/nuts-runtime-version

0.8.4/0.8.4.0

If you want to install nuts (or update from an existing rolling version) you just need to do the following.

Please note that nuts rolling version (which is the most recent version) is quite stable and you can use it for personal usage, for development or for testing but we recommend you consider official versions for production systems.

First you need to download nuts-preview.jar

wget https://thevpc.net/nuts/nuts-preview.jar -O nuts.jar

Then you must run, in a terminal, the following command

java -jar nuts.jar -Zy -r=+preview 

That’s it, now you must relaunch the terminal window (close the terminal and start it again).

The following command should show you the current version

nuts --version

The very same procedure applies whether you already have an existing version of nuts installed or not.

First you need to download nuts-stable.jar

wget wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/net/thevpc/nuts/nuts/0.8.3/nuts-0.8.3.jar -O nuts.jar

If you want a shorter link, use this one!

wget https://thevpc.net/nuts/nuts-stable.jar -O nuts.jar

Then you must run, in a terminal, one of the following commands:

Run this command to reset the configuration or when you are installing the very first time

java -jar nuts.jar -Zy

Or run this command when you want to reinstall nuts from scratch without resetting the configuration

java -jar nuts.jar -Ny

That’s it, now you must relaunch the terminal window (close the terminal and start it again).

The following command should show you the current version

nuts --version

Run the following command to update to the latest version

nuts update

To install a command using nuts just type

nuts install <package>

To run an artifact using nuts just type

nuts <package>

Several commands are available, and you can always manually run any java and non java application. More info is available on the Nuts official website: https://thevpc.github.io/nuts.

nuts has lots of ways to be improved. Please feel free to join the journey.