Installation

Prerequisites

This package has the following prerequisites:

  • simplejson
  • versiontools

To run the test suite you will also need:

  • testtools
  • testscenarios

To build the documentation from source you will also need:

  • sphinx

Installation Options

There are several installation options available:

Using Ubuntu PPAs

For Ubuntu 10.04 onward there is a PPA (personal package archive):

  • ppa:zkrynicki/lava

This PPA has only stable releases. To add it to an Ubuntu system use the add-apt-repository command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zkrynicki/lava

After you add the PPA you need to update your package cache:

sudo apt-get update

Finally you can install the package, it is called python-linaro-json:

sudo apt-get install python-linaro-json

Using Python Package Index

This package is being actively maintained and published in the Python Package Index. You can install it if you have pip tool using just one line:

pip install linaro-json

Using source tarball

To install from source you must first obtain a source tarball from either pypi project page or from Launchpad project page. To install the package unpack the tarball and run:

python setup.py install

You can pass --user if you prefer to do a local (non system-wide) installation.

Note

To install from source you will need distutils (replacement of setuptools) They are typically installed on any Linux system with python but on Windows you may need to install that separately.

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