Steps to install Appium on Linux (tested on fedora 22)


Install Appium

$ sudo dnf update -y
$ sudo dnf groupinstall -y “Development Tools”
$ sudo dnf install -y autoconf automake libtool gettext git scons cmake flex bison libcurl-devel curl ncurses-devel ruby bzip2-devel expat-devel
$ git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew.git ~/.linuxbrew

Add to .bashrc

Until LinuxBrew is fixed, the following is required.

See: https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/issues/47

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

Setup linux brew

export LINUXBREWHOME=$HOME/.linuxbrew
export PATH=$LINUXBREWHOME/bin:$PATH
export MANPATH=$LINUXBREWHOME/man:$MANPATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$LINUXBREWHOME/lib64/pkgconfig:$LINUXBREWHOME/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LINUXBREWHOME/lib64:$LINUXBREWHOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

$ ln -s $(which gcc) ~/.linuxbrew/bin/gcc-4.4
$ ln -s $(which g++) ~/.linuxbrew/bin/g+±4.4
$ brew update

$ brew install node # get node.js
$ npm install -g appium # get appium
$ npm install wd # get appium client
$ appium & # start appium

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