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Setup Instructions

Paul Brower edited this page Jul 16, 2023 · 2 revisions

INSTALLATION AND GETTING STARTED


DEPENDENCIES

  • .Net Core 7 Framework Download
  • For Macs with Intel Chip, download x64 version, for M1/M2 chips, download Arm64 version

MAC USERS

  • For Mac users, after you have installed the .Net Core Framework, open Terminal and type the following command to create a shortcut to the DotNet.exe. You may need to use sudo in front of the command: ln -s /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/bin/

WINDOWS USERS

  • Use Windows Terminal (wt.exe) for the best experience with icons and colors. Free download from microsoft
  • If you're using Windows Terminal (WT.exe) or Windows Powershell, the following will enable emojis and unicode support, which includes increasing the colors that can be used from 16 to 256:
  • [console]::InputEncoding = [console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new()
  • Include the above in your profile.ps1 file and unicode and emoji support will always be available. This link provides step-by-step instruction for create a new Powershell 'profile.ps1' file, if needed.
  • To enable Unicode support in Windows for cmd.exe, do the following:
  1. Press the Windows key, then press 'R'
  2. Type: Run intl.cpl
  3. Click the Administrative tab
  4. Click the Change system locale button
  5. Check the "Beta/Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" checkbox.
  6. Reboot

OBTAINING JIRA API KEY

  • If you do not have an API key for your Atlassian account, instructions can be found here for generating one

FIRST TIME RUNNING APP

  • To use, download and unzip publish.zip (found at the end of these release notes)
  • From a command prompt, navigate to unzipped directory and type:
dotnet JiraStates.dll;

(The JiraStates.dll should be in the folder where the command in executed)

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