How To Install trac-bitten-slave on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install trac-bitten-slave on Ubuntu 18.04. trac-bitten-slave is continuous integration plugin for Trac

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install trac-bitten-slave on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is trac-bitten-slave

trac-bitten-slave is:

Bitten is a Trac extension for continuous integration. It uses a distributed build model, where one or more “slaves” run the actual tests, and a “master” gathers the results and displays them nicely on a web page.

Bitten is similar to BuildBot, Gump, Hudson, Jenkins, or Tinderbox, but integrated well into Trac.

This package contains the slave, which performs the actual build. It is recommended to run the slave on behalf of a non-privileged user. You may run the slave from e.g. from cron or as a daemon.

There are three methods to install trac-bitten-slave 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 trac-bitten-slave Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install trac-bitten-slave using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install trac-bitten-slave

Install trac-bitten-slave Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install trac-bitten-slave using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install trac-bitten-slave

Install trac-bitten-slave 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 trac-bitten-slave using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install trac-bitten-slave

How To Uninstall trac-bitten-slave on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the trac-bitten-slave package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove trac-bitten-slave

Uninstall trac-bitten-slave And Its Dependencies

To uninstall trac-bitten-slave and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove trac-bitten-slave

Remove trac-bitten-slave Configurations and Data

To remove trac-bitten-slave configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge trac-bitten-slave

Remove trac-bitten-slave configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove trac-bitten-slave configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge trac-bitten-slave

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install trac-bitten-slave package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.