How To Install lava-server on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lava-server
on Kali Linux.
What is lava-server
lava-server 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. Extra hardware may be required for some system tests. Results are tracked over time and data can be exported for further analysis.
This package provides the Apache and WSGI configuration and LAVA support files to run the validation server on the local Apache instance as a lava-server virtual host as well as the scheduler and dispatcher.
This package no longer supports configuration as a remote worker and needs to be removed from existing workers. Workers must only install lava-dispatcher.
This package no longer supports Python2.
There are three methods to install lava-server
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-server 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-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lava-server
Install lava-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lava-server
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lava-server
Install lava-server 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-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lava-server
How To Uninstall lava-server on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the lava-server
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lava-server
Uninstall lava-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lava-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lava-server
Remove lava-server Configurations and Data
To remove lava-server
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lava-server
Remove lava-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lava-server
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lava-server
Dependencies
lava-server have the following dependencies:
- debconf
- adduser
- apache2
- gunicorn
- lava-common
- lava-server-doc
- libjs-bootstrap
- libjs-excanvas
- libjs-jquery
- libjs-jquery-flot
- libjs-jquery-typeahead
- postgresql
- postgresql-client
- postgresql-common
- systemd-sysv
- debconf
- python3-aiohttp
- python3-celery
- python3-django
- python3-django-auth-ldap
- python3-django-filters
- python3-django-tables2
- python3-djangorestframework
- python3-djangorestframework-extensions
- python3-djangorestframework-filters
- python3-docutils
- python3-eventlet
- python3-jinja2
- python3-junit.xml
- python3-psycopg2
- python3-requests
- python3-simplejson
- python3-tap
- python3-tz
- python3-voluptuous
- python3-whitenoise
- python3-yaml
- python3-zmq
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lava-server
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.