How To Install lava-lxc-mocker on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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-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 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-lxc-mocker using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lava-lxc-mocker

How To Uninstall lava-lxc-mocker on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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

• lava-lxc-mocker website

Summary

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