Installation.

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Prerequisites. ⇧

Before installing and using this Plugin make sure you've already have the SFDX CLI platform installed on your system.

See the this article how to install the SFDX CLI.

Installation. ⇧

The simplest way to install is using SFDX CLI as a standard SFDX plugin. ⇧

This would be the recommended way for installing the SFDMU, since it will install and use the production version of the Plugin:

# If you have an old version of the Plugin, uninstall it:
$ sfdx plugins:uninstall sfdmu

# Install the latest version of the Plugin:
$ sfdx plugins:install sfdmu

Installation as the cloned source code (for the debugging purposes): ⇧ 

# If you have outdated source code already cloned and linked, go to the directory containing old Plugin source code and unlink it from the SFDX by typing:
$ sfdx plugins:unlink

# Then clone the latest source code:
$ git clone https://github.com/forcedotcom/SFDX-Data-Move-Utility

# 2. Make the installation directory current:
$ cd SFDX-Data-Move-Utility

# 3. Install npm modules:
$ npm install

# 4. Link the Plugin to the SFDX:
$ sfdx plugins:link
Notes:

  • When installing and running the SFDMU on MacOS you can sometimes run into a permission issue. If so, just prepend all above command with "sudo", e.g.:

    $ sudo sfdx plugins:install sfdmu

Last updated on 17th May 2023