Installation¶
Debian Jessie and Ubuntu 14.04¶
You can install Plainbox straight from the archive:
$ sudo apt-get install plainbox
Ubuntu (Development PPA)¶
Plainbox can be installed from a PPA on Ubuntu Precise (12.04) or newer.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:checkbox-dev/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install plainbox
From python package index¶
Plainbox can be installed from pypi. Keep in
mind that you will need python3 version of pip:
$ pip3 install plainbox
We recommend using virtualenv or installing with the --user option.
From a .snap (for Ubuntu Snappy)¶
You can build a local version of plainbox.snap and install it on any snappy device (it is architecture independent for now, it doesn’t bundle python itself). You will have to have access to the checkbox source repository for this.
$ bzr branch lp:checkbox
$ cd checkbox/plainbox/
$ make
This will give you a new .snap file in the dist/ directory. You can install
that snappy on a physical or virtual machine running snappy with the
snappy-remote tool. Note that you will have to have the latest version of
the tool only available in the snappy PPA at this time. Refer to snappy
umentation for details.
If you followed snappy documentation to run an amd64 image in kvm you can try
this code snippet to get started. Note that you can pass the use -snapshot
option to kvm to make all the disk changes temporary. This will let you make
destructive changes inside the image without having to re-create the original
image each time.
wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.04/ubuntu-15.04-snappy-amd64-generic.img.xz
unxz ubuntu-15.04-snappy-amd64-generic.img.xz
kvm -snapshot -m 512 -redir :8090::80 -redir :8022::22 ubuntu-15.04-snappy-amd64-generic.img
snappy-remote --url=ssh://localhost:8022 install plainbox_0.22.dev0_all.snap
The password for the ubuntu user is ubuntu. After installing you can
log in (or use the KVM window) and invoke the plainbox.plainbox executable
directly.