switching JMeter version on Mac
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Suppose you need to maintain a JMeter script that was originally created using version 4.0 and is not compatible with the version installed on your laptop.
For example, suppose you have version 5.1.1 installed on your Mac. The following command, run in a terminal, displays the installed version:
brew info jmeter
jmeter: stable 5.1.1 (bottled)
Load testing and performance measurement application
https://jmeter.apache.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/jmeter/5.1.1 (2,607 files, 134.3MB) *
Normalmente, o brew também seria o utilitário para instalar a versão 4.0; infelizmente, o brew não permite a instalação de versões alternativas. Felizmente, existe uma alternativa muito simples baseada no comando CURL. Esta é a sequência:
curl -SL https://archive.apache.org/dist/jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-4.0.zip | tar -xf - -C /usr/local/Cellar/jmeter
cd /usr/local/Cellar/jmeter
mv apache-jmeter-4.0 4.0 # cambio de nombre!
O comando brew a seguir mostra que as duas versões:
brew info jmeter
jmeter: stable 5.1.1 (bottled)
Load testing and performance measurement application
https://jmeter.apache.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/jmeter/apache-jmeter-4.0 (2,339 files, 83.8MB)
Built from source
/usr/local/Cellar/jmeter/5.1.1 (2,607 files, 134.3MB)
Built from source
A única coisa que resta é alternar as versões da seguinte forma:
brew switch jmeter 4.0
Cleaning /usr/local/Cellar/jmeter/5.1.1
Cleaning /usr/local/Cellar/jmeter/4.0
101 links created for /usr/local/Cellar/jmeter/4.0
jmeter --version
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