How to install heroku toolbelt using Cygwin

Question

First I'd like to ask for your mercy for my poor English, its not my first language.

I'm starting a new course on Coursera, and the first lecture is all about how to connect to some cloud services which we will be working on during class.

I have an AWS account (which I'm connected to on Cygwin when writing the following commands), heroku & github as well.

We are using Cygwin (for Win 7 OS) and I was asked to install these two packages using the following commands:

sudo apt-get install -y git-core
wget -qo- https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh

The first one installed smoothley, no problems along the way and when I wrote "which git" it returned a path.

When I wrote the second command it returned nothing... I tried many things and nothing worked.

What can I do in order to install the Heroku Toolbelt?

BTW: I have downloaded it by myself from the Heroku official site, but couldn't figure out how to relate it to my AWS so it will be aware for its existance on my computer.

Freudian

if any of these answered your question, please mark them as correct. – Chunchung

Answer 1

tomedemuyt gave a real answer to this question in one of the comments, but building on that, just add this to your .bashrc file and it will work just the same:

alias heroku='heroku.bat'

Ascensive

doesn't work for me. only heroku help works, other causes cygwin console to hang. – Biddie

Answer 2

Hm, if you're in Windows, it might work better to just install the Heroku toolbelt for Windows. I believe it packages cygwin and msysgit.

Bivouac

When in cygwin, just call heroku.bat instead of heroku. – William

Answer 3

You've got a typo in the -q option to wget. You've used a lowercase o and you need the digit 0. This causes wget not to output anything, so the pipe to sh is blank and nothing runs.

wget -qO- https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh | sh

Amaryllis

I've tried the suggested command above, but the command produced nothing, no effect, no error message. Then I tried removing the command switches -q0-, and not piping to sh, what I got is in the next comment, as I cannot put enough text here. – Naca

$ wget toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh --2013-07-10 13:00:36-- toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh Resolving toolbelt.heroku.com (toolbelt.heroku.com)... 174.129.20.208, 174.129.22.35, 184.73.171.204, ... Connecting to toolbelt.heroku.com (toolbelt.heroku.com)|174.129.20.208|:443... connected. ERROR: The certificate of toolbelt.heroku.com' is not trusted. ERROR: The certificate of toolbelt.heroku.com' hasn't got a known issuer. – Naca

Just realize that the original problem is executing on Ubuntu, an AWS instance, and the root cause indeed was the typo of -qo- to -q0-. While my question is executing that command on Cygwin system. It's different. – Naca

add the --no-check-certificate flag and then you will have a proper result ... but you may still get stuck later because cygwin doesn't have a sudo command – Armory