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Step-by-Step Guide to Manage OCaml Installations With asdf

Sophia Brandt on January 16, 2020

Use asdf to manage opam (and OCaml) asdf is a command-line tool which allows you to install multiple versions of a programming language. With a...
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Alain •

Running asdf opam list-all doesn't seem to work for me. Getting:

➜  ~ asdf opam list-all
zsh: correct 'opam' to '.opam' [nyae]? n
Unknown command: `asdf opam list-all`
version: v0.7.6-6207e42

MANAGE PLUGINS
  asdf plugin add <name> [<git-url>]       Add a plugin from the plugin repo OR, add a Git repo
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Sophia Brandt •

What's the result of asdf plugin-list? It should show that opam is installed.
On my Linux machine, the command for listing all versions of a plugin is asdf plugin list-all, but the documentation says asdf plugin list all (without hyphen).
Perhaps it's different on a Mac?

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Alain •

asdf plugin list all works!

➜  tweets-and-users [master*]asdf plugin list all
initializing plugin repository...
Cloning into '/Users/prisc_000/.asdf/repository'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 35, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (35/35), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (33/33), done.
remote: Total 1332 (delta 15), reused 17 (delta 2), pack-reused 1297
Receiving objects: 100% (1332/1332), 293.36 KiB | 2.93 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (553/553), done.
1password                  https://github.com/samtgarson/asdf-1password.git
R                          https://github.com/iroddis/asdf-R.git
adr-tools                  https://gitlab.com/td7x/asdf/adr-tools.git
aks-engine                 https://github.com/robsonpeixoto/asdf-aks-engine.git
alp                        https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-alp.git
aria2                      https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-aria2.git
bazel                      https://github.com/rajatvig/asdf-bazel.git
binnacle                   https://github.com/Traackr/asdf-binnacle.git

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Sophia Brandt •

That's great!
But it looks like the authors implemented a different CLI syntax for Linux and Mac...
I will edit that in my post.