How to setup Appium in Ubuntu for android

Question

I am new in appium(automation testing technology).

I\'m using a PC running Ubuntu Linux.

I have searched about this topic but I have not got any

Answer 1

Many people face issue while installing appium on ubuntu because we install using sudo we should install appium using npm

Detailed step by step explanation to install appium on Ubuntu using npm

CLICK HERE

2. To install node.js and appium without sudo we use linuxbrew.

3. To install linuxbrew these are the dependencies

   Ruby 1.8.6 or newer
   
   GCC 4.2 or newer
   Git 1.7.12.4 or newer
   Linux 2.6.16 or newer
   64-bit x86 or 32-bit ARM platform
   

4. Install Ruby using below command

   sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git m4 python-setuptools ruby texinfo libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev
   

5. Install Linux Brew using below command

   ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL 
   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/go/install)"
   

6. Set Path for brew

first type sudo gedit.bashrc in terminal and copy the below in the .bashrc file.export

PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"exportMANPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/man:$MANPATH"export INFOPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/info:$INFOPATH"

7 .Install Node:Open new terminal and copy the command and press enter

brew update
brew install node
brew link node

8.Finally Install Appium using below command

npm install -g appium

9.Let's Check if the installation is successfull. Open the terminal and type "appium" and hit enter.You should see something like this in the terminal

 info: Welcome to Appium v1.4.12(REV 8db2d00b9afcf2c50a09a80a2e8d56b05a902caf)
 info: Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723
 info: Console LogLevel: debug

Answer 2

I've installed the NVM on CentOS 7 and it works perfectly.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.13.1/install.sh | bash

I will strongly recommend going for that with which you will have control of NodeJS versions.

Btw, Linuxbrew doesn't work for me.

Answer 3

Steps to install Appium on Linux.

Basics setup from the link.

Now install linuxbrew taking help from the link.

Now use the following commands from the terminal

Make sure to start a new terminal:

brew update
brew install node
brew link node
npm install -g appium@version

Hope this helps those who face the issue installing with "sudo".

Answer 4

Do not install nodejs through apt-get, which will need sudo rights and appium will not work if node is installed as sudo user. If you have already installed remove it using

sudo apt-get remove nodejs
sudo apt-get remove npm

Download latest nodejs linux binaries form http://nodejs.org/download/

Extract into a folder that doesn't need sudo rights to access, for example your home folder.

tar -xvf <downloaded_binary_tar.gz>

Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc file.

export PATH=$PATH:<full_path_of_the_extracted_node_folder>/bin

Open a now terminal and do

npm install -g appium
appium

Answer 5

I'm sure you will find plenty of tutorials on this (and this will only work for android since you would need an OSX box to do iOS) but here is what we did:

Install nodejs/npm:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties python g++ make
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
UPDATE: use homebrew to install node

Install grunt-cli:

npm install -g grunt-cli

If you run into an issue about it not being able to install in a directory, do this.

Install Appium:

npm install -g appium

Set up a symlink in your .bashrc file for Appium:

ln -s /path/to/appium.js /usr/bin/appium

Test to make sure it can run by running appium in your terminal. The output should be something like:

info: Welcome to Appium v0.16.0 (REV 292d265edd9c7aaf96f165009285c814b218363d)
info: Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723
   info  - socket.io started

Install Java JRE 6

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre

Install Android SDK:

Download the SDK and extract it to your home folder.

Launch the Android SDK Manager:

~/path/to/android-sdk/tools/android

Install the packages that you'll need in the new window:

• Android 4.X
• Android Support Library
• Android SUpport Repository
• Google Play services
• Everything under Tools
• Everything under Extras

You can also create a symlink for the Android SDK Manager by doing:

ln -s /path/to/android-sdk/tools/android /usr/bin/android

Answer 6

Just to save somebodies time: on my Ubuntu 14.04 I was trying to install npm both via sudo apt-get and using binaries. Both approaches were wrong but everything is Ok after I istalled npm via HomeBrew