Perforce 2009.2: P4 User's Guide

Chapter 1

Installing P4

This chapter tells you how to install the Perforce Command-Line Client (p4) on a client machine. For details about installing the Perforce Server, refer to the Perforce System Administrator's Guide.

Installing P4 on UNIX and OS X

To install the Perforce Command-Line Client (p4) on a UNIX or Macintosh OS X machine, perform the following steps:

1.	Download the p4 executable file from the Perforce web site:

http://www.perforce.com/perforce/downloads/index.html

The Perforce client programs are typically downloaded to /usr/local/bin.

2.	Make the p4 file executable (chmod +x p4)

3.	Configure the server port setting, client workspace name, and user name. You can specify these settings by configuring the P4PORT, P4CLIENT, and P4USER environment variables. (For details, see Chapter 2, Configuring P4.)

Installing P4 on Windows

To install the Perforce Command-Line Client (p4.exe) on Windows, download and run the Perforce Windows installer (perforce.exe) from the Downloads page of the Perforce web site:

http://www.perforce.com/perforce/downloads/index.html

The Perforce installer enables you to install and uninstall the Perforce Command-Line Client and other Perforce Windows components.

Verifying the installation

To verify that you have successfully installed the Perforce Command-line Client, type p4 info at the command line and press ENTER. If you have a server running on the specified host and port, the following message is displayed:

User name: ona Client name: ona-agave Client host: agave Client root: /home/ona/p4-ona Current directory: /home/ona/p4-ona Client address: 10.0.0.196:2345 Server address: ida:1818 Server root: /usr/depot/p4d Server date: 2008/06/28 12:11:47 -0700 PDT Server uptime: 752:41:33 Server version: P4D/FREEBSD/2008.1/156375 (2008/05/25) Server license: P4Admin <p4adm> 20 users (expires 2009/01/01) Server license-ip: 10.0.0.2

If your configuration settings are incorrect, the following message is displayed::

Perforce client error:         Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT.         TCP connect to <hostname> failed.         <hostname>: host unknown.