Installing the Heroku Toolbelt

Heroku Toolbelt is available for download at https://toolbelt.heroku.com for Mac OS X, Windows, Debian/Ubuntu, and standalone operating systems. Choose your operating system, download, and install it.

For Mac OS X, Windows, and Debian/Ubuntu, the following software applications are automatically installed if you don't have them installed on your computer:

  • Heroku client: This is the client tool to create and manage your Heroku applications
  • Foreman: This is the tool used to run your applications locally
  • Git: This is the distributed revision control system used to manage and deploy your Heroku applications

If you choose the standalone version, only the Heroku client is installed and you must install Foreman and Git manually. You can find more information about the installation for your operating system at https://github.com/ddollar/foreman and http://git-scm.com.