Installation doc fails to mention sourcing istio.VERSION

[istio]

Installation doc fails to mention sourcing istio.VERSION

[andraxylia]

It will not be mandatory with the new release.

[saturnism]

I installed the istioctl through the curl url. But it did ask me fore it. I only knew I needed to source in the VERSION file because I've seen the previous doc.

Interestingly enough, when I check my istioctl version, it says it's 0.1.2... But the package was supposedly 0.1.3. Would that cause the issue?

istioctl version
Version: 0.1.2-6dbd19d
GitRevision: 6dbd19d
GitBranch: unknown
User: jenkins@ubuntu-16-04-build-b6e6ae752ccba
GolangVersion: go1.8
getting-started-java $ which istioctl
/Users/rayt/Applications/istio-0.1.3/bin/istioctl

[ldemailly]

can you try again with 0.1.4 ?

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/istio/istio/3b6a0660f4c697045b9123e073b364aba988bf61/downloadIstio.sh | sh -

also check you don't have an older istioctl in your path (rm /usr/local/bin/istioctl maybe)

[ldemailly]

0.1.4 is now in so try

curl -L https://git.io/getIstio | sh -

and let me know if you still have the issue

[ldemailly]

side note https://istio.io/docs/samples/bookinfo.html#start-the-application
does still mention to source istio.VERSION so we should remove it there too if that's not needed anymore

[andraxylia]

This step is no longer needed as of 0.1.4.

[ldemailly]

fixed