Obtaining Hercules

Hercules is available through GitHub, a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the GIT revision control system.

Obtaining Hercules on Windows

Downloads

In order to get GIT on Windows properly, you need to download two things: MSysGit and TortoiseGIT.

 Download and Install MSysGit
 Download the latest TortoiseGit

Installation

Alright, first go through MSysGit installer and just set it up (its used as a base for TortoiseGit). then once you install MSysGit, launch the installer you just downloaded for TortoiseGit, you'll be prompted by a window similar to the following

The next window is "Choose SSH Client", select "TortoisePLink", hit Next.

The next window is "Custom Setup", do not change anything unless you know what you're doing, hit Next.

We're done with the installation, that was easy, wasn't it?

Obtaining Hercules

Go to the folder where you want Hercules to be placed, right click and select "Git Clone..."

in the URL field, type the following:

 https://github.com/HerculesWS/Hercules.git

ensure the 'Directory' field is as desired, and hit 'OK'

Now Hercules is being downloaded

Just wait for it to complete the download of your working copy and you'll be good to go.

Updating Hercules

Right-Click the folder where you downloaded your working copy and within the TortoiseGit menu, select "Pull..." as shown below

On the following window just hit 'OK', and your working copy will update.

Obtaining Hercules on Linux

CentOS

• Step 1:

 rpm -Uvhhttp://repo.webtatic.com/yum/centos/5/latest.rpm

• Step 2:

 yum install --enablerepo=webtatic git-all

• Step 3:

 yum install --enablerepo=webtatic --disableexcludes=main git-all

Debian/Others

• Step 1:

 apt-get install git

Obtaining a Working Copy

Type the following to create a Hercules working copy in your home (~) directory:

 git clone https://github.com/HerculesWS/Hercules.git ~/Hercules

Updating a Working Copy

Type the following when inside your working copy:

 git pull