How To Install openqa-common on Debian 12

Learn how to install openqa-common on Debian 12 with this tutorial. openqa-common is automatic Operating System testing framework (common files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openqa-common on Debian 12.

What is openqa-common

openqa-common is:

This package contains shared resources for openQA web front-end and openQA workers.

openQA is a testing framework that allows you to run tests on pretty-much anything that you can ‘remotely’ control. For instance, a VM that can be accessed via VNC.

There are three methods to install openqa-common 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 openqa-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install openqa-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install openqa-common

Install openqa-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install openqa-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install openqa-common

Install openqa-common 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 openqa-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install openqa-common

How To Uninstall openqa-common on Debian 12

To uninstall only the openqa-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove openqa-common

Uninstall openqa-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall openqa-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove openqa-common

Remove openqa-common Configurations and Data

To remove openqa-common configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge openqa-common

Remove openqa-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove openqa-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openqa-common

Dependencies

openqa-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openqa-common package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.