How To Install koji-servers on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install koji-servers on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is koji-servers
koji-servers is:
The Fedora Project uses Koji for their build system, as do several other projects.
Koji’s goal is to provide a flexible, secure, and reproducible way to build software.
Key features:
- New buildroot for each build
- Robust XML-RPC APIs for easy integration with other tools
- Web interface with SSL and Kerberos authentication
- Thin, portable command line client
- Users can create local buildroots
- Buildroot contents are tracked in the database
- Versioned data
This package contains the server components of the koji build system.
- koji-hub, the center of all Koji operations. It is an XML-RPC server running under mod_wsgi in Apache.
- kojid is the build daemon that runs on each of the build machines.
- koji-web is a set of scripts that run in mod_wsgi and use the Cheetah templating engine to provide a web interface to Koji.
- kojira is a daemon that keeps the build root repodata updated.
There are three methods to install koji-servers on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install koji-servers Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install koji-servers using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install koji-servers
Install koji-servers Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install koji-servers using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install koji-servers
Install koji-servers 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install koji-servers using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install koji-servers
How To Uninstall koji-servers on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the koji-servers package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove koji-servers
Uninstall koji-servers And Its Dependencies
To uninstall koji-servers and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove koji-servers
Remove koji-servers Configurations and Data
To remove koji-servers configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge koji-servers
Remove koji-servers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove koji-servers configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge koji-servers
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install koji-servers package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
