How To Install lava-coordinator on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lava-coordinator on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 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 lava-coordinator using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lava-coordinator
How To Uninstall lava-coordinator on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lava-coordinator package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
