How to Install Terraform on Linux Mint

Terraform is a popular infrastructure as code tool that allows you to define and manage infrastructure resources in a cloud provider agnostic language. In this tutorial, we will be discussing how to install Terraform on Linux Mint.

Step 1: Check Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure that your Linux Mint system is up-to-date and that you have the following prerequisites installed:

• Curl
• Unzip

You can check if they're installed using the following command:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install curl unzip

Step 2: Download Terraform

To get started with the installation, head over to the Terraform Downloads page at official Terraform website and copy the latest version's link address. As of this writing, the latest version at the moment is v1.0.9.

$ cd /tmp
$ curl -LO https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/1.0.9/terraform_1.0.9_linux_amd64.zip

Step 3: Extract Terraform

Once the download is complete, you can extract the zip file using the following command:

$ unzip terraform_1.0.9_linux_amd64.zip

Step 4: Move Terraform to a binary directory

After extracting the zip file, you can move the Terraform binary to /usr/local/bin directory, this will make it available for global usage.

$ sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/

Step 5: Verify Installation

Finally, verify that Terraform was installed correctly using the following command:

$ terraform -version

This should output the installed version of Terraform.

That's it, you've successfully installed Terraform on your Linux Mint system. You can now begin to use Terraform by writing configuration files in the HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language).