How To Install debci on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debci on Debian 12.
What is debci
debci is:
debci will scan the Debian archive for packages that contain DEP-8 compliant test suites, and run those test suites whenever a new version of the package, or of any package in its dependency chain (modulo the base system), is available.
The requests are distributed to worker machines through AMQP queues. You need rabbitmq-server for this; but it is also possible to run RabbitMQ on a different server than debci, in which case you do not need to install that recommendation.
This package contains the debci core.
There are three methods to install debci on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install debci Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install debci using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install debci
Install debci Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install debci using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install debci
Install debci Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install debci using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install debci
How To Uninstall debci on Debian 12
To uninstall only the debci package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove debci
Uninstall debci And Its Dependencies
To uninstall debci and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove debci
Remove debci Configurations and Data
To remove debci configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge debci
Remove debci configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove debci configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge debci
Dependencies
debci have the following dependencies:
- adduser
- debootstrap
- ruby-pg
- sudo
- amqp-tools
- curl
- dctrl-tools
- debian-archive-keyring
- devscripts
- distro-info
- fonts-font-awesome
- jq
- libjs-bootstrap
- libjs-jquery
- libjs-jquery-flot
- moreutils
- patchutils
- retry
- rsync
- ruby
- ruby-activerecord
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debci package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.