Installing Packer on Elementary OS Latest

Step 1: Downloading Packer

• Open your web browser and navigate to https://www.packer.io/downloads.
• Choose the appropriate version of Packer for your system. In this case, we would choose Linux as our operating system and AMD64 as the architecture.
• Once the download is complete, you should have a compressed file named packer_X.X.X_linux_amd64.zip, where X.X.X is the version number.

Step 2: Unzip Packer

• Open the terminal on your Elementary OS by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T.
• Navigate to your Downloads folder by running the command cd ~/Downloads.
• Unzip the Packer file by running the command unzip packer_X.X.X_linux_amd64.zip.
• This will extract the contents of the compressed file into a new directory named packer_X.X.X_linux_amd64.

Step 3: Install Packer

• Copy the Packer binary file from the packer_X.X.X_linux_amd64 directory to the /usr/local/bin directory by running the command sudo cp ./packer /usr/local/bin/.
• Alternatively, you can create a symlink to the Packer binary file by running the command sudo ln -s ~/Downloads/packer_X.X.X_linux_amd64/packer /usr/local/bin/.
• Verify that Packer is installed correctly by running the command packer version.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Packer on your Elementary OS system!