How To Install lavacli on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lavacli on Debian 12.
What is lavacli
lavacli 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 command line interface to any LAVA (Linaro Automated Validation Architecture) instance for submitting test jobs or querying the instance for device and job status over XML-RPC. 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 lavacli on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lavacli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lavacli using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lavacli
Install lavacli Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lavacli using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lavacli
Install lavacli 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 lavacli using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lavacli
How To Uninstall lavacli on Debian 12
To uninstall only the lavacli package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lavacli
Uninstall lavacli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lavacli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lavacli
Remove lavacli Configurations and Data
To remove lavacli configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lavacli
Remove lavacli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lavacli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lavacli
Dependencies
lavacli have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lavacli package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.