How To Install lava-coordinator on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install lava-coordinator on Kali Linux. lava-coordinator is LAVA coordinator daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lava-coordinator on Kali Linux.

What is lava-coordinator

lava-coordinator is:

This package provides coordinator daemon to provide communication and synchronisation methods for test jobs running on multiple configured devices on instances of LAVA (Linaro Automated Validation Architecture).

One coordinator daemon can support more than one LAVA instance in a single lab.

There are three methods to install lava-coordinator on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install lava-coordinator Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install lava-coordinator using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lava-coordinator

Install lava-coordinator Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install lava-coordinator using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install lava-coordinator

Install lava-coordinator Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install lava-coordinator using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lava-coordinator

How To Uninstall lava-coordinator on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the lava-coordinator package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lava-coordinator

Uninstall lava-coordinator And Its Dependencies

To uninstall lava-coordinator and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lava-coordinator

Remove lava-coordinator Configurations and Data

To remove lava-coordinator configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lava-coordinator

Remove lava-coordinator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove lava-coordinator configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lava-coordinator

Dependencies

lava-coordinator have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lava-coordinator package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.