How to setup Appium in Ubuntu for android
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 useful tutorial. Can anyone point me to the right documentation?
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=$PATH:<full_path_of_the_extracted_node_folder>/bin
Open a now terminal and do
npm install -g appium
appium
I'm sure you will find plenty of tutorials on this (and this will only work for android since you would need an OSX box to do iOS) but here is what we did:
Install nodejs/npm:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties python g++ make
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
UPDATE: use homebrew to install node
Install grunt-cli:
npm install -g grunt-cli
If you run into an issue about it not being able to install in a directory, do this.
Install Appium:
npm install -g appium
Set up a symlink in your .bashrc file for Appium:
ln -s /path/to/appium.js /usr/bin/appium
Test to make sure it can run by running appium in your terminal. The output should be something like:
info: Welcome to Appium v0.16.0 (REV 292d265edd9c7aaf96f165009285c814b218363d)
info: Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723
info - socket.io started
Install Java JRE 6
sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre
Install Android SDK:
Download the SDK and extract it to your home folder.
Launch the Android SDK Manager:
~/path/to/android-sdk/tools/android
Install the packages that you'll need in the new window:
- Android 4.X
- Android Support Library
- Android SUpport Repository
- Google Play services
- Everything under Tools
- Everything under Extras
You can also create a symlink for the Android SDK Manager by doing:
ln -s /path/to/android-sdk/tools/android /usr/bin/android
Steps to get appium working on ubuntu pc :
Install ruby: Paste the below command at terminal and hit enter
sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git m4 ruby texinfo libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev
Install linux brew:Paste the below command at terminal and hit enter
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/go/install)"
set path for brew
Type: gedit .bashrc at terminal and copy paste following into the .bashrc file
export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export MANPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/man:$MANPATH"
export INFOPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/info:$INFOPATH"
Install node:Paste the below commands one by one at terminal and hit enter
brew update
brew install node
brew link node
Install appium
npm install -g appium
npm install wd
To start appium: Paste the below command at terminal and hit enter
appium
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