How To Install lava-server on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install lava-server on Kali Linux. lava-server is Linaro Automated Validation Architecture server

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:

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.