How to setup Appium in Ubuntu for android

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 nodejssudo 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 appiumappium

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 updatebrew install nodebrew link node

Install appium

npm install -g appiumnpm install wd

To start appium: Paste the below command at terminal and hit enter

appium