How To Install lava-tool on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lava-tool on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is lava-tool
lava-tool 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 provides a user space connection to any LAVA (Linaro Automated Validation Architecture) instance for submitting test jobs or querying the instance for device and job status over XMLRPC. A user account on the instance is needed to create and use authentication tokens for some calls. The list of calls supported is described on the API section of the LAVA instance.
There are three methods to install lava-tool 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-tool 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-tool using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lava-tool
Install lava-tool Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lava-tool using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lava-tool
Install lava-tool 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-tool using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lava-tool
How To Uninstall lava-tool on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the lava-tool package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lava-tool
Uninstall lava-tool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lava-tool and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lava-tool
Remove lava-tool Configurations and Data
To remove lava-tool configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lava-tool
Remove lava-tool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lava-tool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lava-tool
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lava-tool package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
