[Flutter] Use asdf flutter plugin to install multiple Flutter versions

Posted on 2021-02-27 Edited on 2024-09-12 In Programming Language , Dart , Flutter Views: Word count in article: 1.9k Reading time ≈ 2 mins.

asdf and Flutter Plugin

asdf is a single CLI tool for managing multiple runtime versions. It extend with a simple plugin system to install your favourite language: Dart, Elixir, Flutter, Golang (Go), Java, Node.js, Python, Ruby …

This article is about how to use asdf and Flutter plugin to install multiple Flutter versions on macOS with the Homebrew package manager.

Prerequisites

Xcode Command Line Tools
The Xcode Command Line Tools Package is a small self-contained package available for download separately from Xcode and that allows you to do command line development in macOS which is consists of the macOS SDK and command-line tools such as Clang, which are installed at this

For more information about installing and using Xcode Command Line Tools, see the Xcode Command Line Tools
Homebrew
Homebrew is the Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux).

For more information about installing and using Homebrew, see the Homebrew - https://brew.sh/.

Installation

Install asdf

# Install asdf dependencies
$ brew install coreutils curl git

# Install asdf
$ brew install asdf

asdf Flutter Plugin

# Install Flutter plugin requirements
$ brew install openssl readline

# Install Flutter plugin
$ asdf plugin-add flutter

List all Flutter Version

Update Flutter plugin.

1	$ asdf plugin update flutter

List all Flutter versions.

1	$ asdf list all flutter

Install Flutter version

Install a Flutter version manually.

$ asdf install flutter 2.0.0-stable

$ flutter --version
No version set for command flutter
Consider adding one of the following versions in your config file at ~/.tool-versions
flutter 2.0.0-stable

$ echo "flutter 2.0.0-stable" >> ~/.tool-versions

$ asdf exec flutter --version
Flutter SDK version: 2.12.0 (stable) (Thu Feb 25 19:50:53 2021 +0100) on "macos_x64"