# Introducing swiftbox 0.10 with CentOS(RHEL) and Amazon Linux support **URL:** \ **Category:** Related Projects\ **Tags:** linux, toolchain\ **Created:** [May 13, 2020, 4:33am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swiftbox-0-10-with-centos-rhel-and-amazon-linux-support/36431 "2020-05-13T04:33:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stevapple](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/stevapple/32/31979_2.png) [@stevapple](https://forums.swift.org/u/stevapple)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 4:33am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swiftbox-0-10-with-centos-rhel-and-amazon-linux-support/36431/1 "2020-05-13T04:33:41Z")
`swiftbox` is a simple and lightweight Swift toolchain quick installation and management tool. It will keep updating to support any Linux distribution that is supported by Swift officially. In v0.10, swiftbox finally supports all theses Linux distributions the same as [Swift.org](http://Swift.org): - Ubuntu; - CentOS; - RedHat Enterprise Linux (treated as CentOS); - Amazon Linux. > **[GitHub - stevapple/swiftbox: Use Swift out of the Box on Ubuntu, CentOS(RHEL)...](https://github.com/stevapple/swiftbox)** > > Use Swift out of the Box on Ubuntu, CentOS(RHEL) and Amazon Linux - GitHub - stevapple/swiftbox: Use Swift out of the Box on Ubuntu, CentOS(RHEL) and Amazon Linux It includes the following functionalities: - Lookup availability of Swift releases; - Lookup Swift nightly build status; - Install any supported Swift releases; - Install the latest available nightly build; - Switch between Swift toolchains (requires a restart of shell); - Quick update to the latest version. I believe `swiftbox` can be the easiest way for Linux users of these platforms to try Swift. Welcome for PRs and issues. `swiftbox` is a single-file shell script, which makes it extremely lightweight and portable. Besides, it only uses resources from [swift.org](http://swift.org), which is always up-to-date and trustworthy. P.S. I'll try to deploy `shim` strategy in the upcoming `1.0` release. `0.x` simply uses `PATH` which has some restrictions on switching. ---
**Author:** ![stevapple](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/stevapple/32/31979_2.png) [@stevapple](https://forums.swift.org/u/stevapple)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swiftbox-0-10-with-centos-rhel-and-amazon-linux-support/36431/2 "2020-05-22T10:57:45Z")
Since Swift 5.2.4 has been released for all these platforms, you can now try Swift with swiftbox by a single command: ```swift sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stevapple/swiftbox/master/install.sh)" swiftbox get 5.2.4 ``` 🎉 ---
**Author:** ![stevapple](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/stevapple/32/31979_2.png) [@stevapple](https://forums.swift.org/u/stevapple)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swiftbox-0-10-with-centos-rhel-and-amazon-linux-support/36431/3 "2020-05-24T11:54:23Z")
I’m happy to announce swiftbox 0.11 with a help page finally, and also with various command renames (the interface is not stable in 0.x). Run `swiftbox update` to upgrade. And then you can use `swiftbox -h` or `swiftbox --help` to see all the supported commands. ---
**Author:** ![stevapple](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/stevapple/32/31979_2.png) [@stevapple](https://forums.swift.org/u/stevapple)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swiftbox-0-10-with-centos-rhel-and-amazon-linux-support/36431/4 "2020-05-24T14:23:31Z")
I’m sincerely sorry for the breaking changes introduced in v0.12: `install` is now deprecated and the upgrading process is completely refactored. For current users, you need to do a fresh install in one of the following ways: ```nohighlight $ swiftbox upgrade swiftbox 0.11.1 is already installed in /usr/bin Input 'yes' or 'y' to upgrade, anything else to do a fresh installation: n ``` ```nohighlight $ sudo rm /usr/bin/swiftbox $ sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stevapple/swiftbox/master/install.sh)" ``` ```nohighlight $ sudo curl -o /usr/bin/swiftbox https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/stevapple/swiftbox@0.12.2/swiftbox.sh $ sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/swiftbox $ swiftbox upgrade ``` swiftbox 0.12 is a huge update with totally new installation and upgrade experience. I hope you’ll enjoy it. I’m now going to refactor the whole script with a clearer structure, and it’ll take some time. Exciting new features like system version aliases and any snapshot installation will come soon after. ---
**Author:** ![stevapple](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/stevapple/32/31979_2.png) [@stevapple](https://forums.swift.org/u/stevapple)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swiftbox-0-10-with-centos-rhel-and-amazon-linux-support/36431/5 "2020-05-24T14:51:08Z")
For more information about upgrading issues, see here: > **[GitHub - stevapple/swiftbox: Use Swift out of the Box on Ubuntu, CentOS(RHEL)...](https://github.com/stevapple/swiftbox#known-issues-with-upgrading)** > > Use Swift out of the Box on Ubuntu, CentOS(RHEL) and Amazon Linux - GitHub - stevapple/swiftbox: Use Swift out of the Box on Ubuntu, CentOS(RHEL) and Amazon Linux ---
**Author:** ![stevapple](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/stevapple/32/31979_2.png) [@stevapple](https://forums.swift.org/u/stevapple)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/introducing-swiftbox-0-10-with-centos-rhel-and-amazon-linux-support/36431/6 "2020-07-29T14:54:59Z")
Update July 29th: `swiftbox` has released version 0.12.5 with an initial CentOS 7 support (for now, nightly only). Thanks a lot for the effort of the whole community to make Swift run well on CentOS 7!