How To Install lava-lxc-mocker on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lava-lxc-mocker on Debian 10.
What is lava-lxc-mocker
lava-lxc-mocker is:
LAVA is a continuous integration system for deploying operating systems onto physical and virtual hardware for running tests. Tests can be simple boot testing, bootloader testing and system level testing, although extra hardware may be required for some system tests. Results are tracked over time and data can be exported for further analysis.
This package contains set of mocker scripts that mocks each of the lxc commands that LAVA uses. It does not support all commands and options that lxc provides, but just the ones that LAVA uses. Test jobs using LXC can then be replicated in Docker.
There are three methods to install lava-lxc-mocker on Debian 10. 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-lxc-mocker 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-lxc-mocker using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lava-lxc-mocker
Install lava-lxc-mocker Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lava-lxc-mocker using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lava-lxc-mocker
Install lava-lxc-mocker 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 lava-lxc-mocker using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lava-lxc-mocker
How To Uninstall lava-lxc-mocker on Debian 10
To uninstall only the lava-lxc-mocker package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lava-lxc-mocker
Uninstall lava-lxc-mocker And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lava-lxc-mocker and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lava-lxc-mocker
Remove lava-lxc-mocker Configurations and Data
To remove lava-lxc-mocker configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lava-lxc-mocker
Remove lava-lxc-mocker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lava-lxc-mocker configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lava-lxc-mocker
Dependencies
lava-lxc-mocker have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lava-lxc-mocker package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.