How to Install Touca on Manjaro

Introduction

Touca is a lightweight framework for testing software changes efficiently. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install Touca on Manjaro.

Prerequisites

To install Touca on Manjaro, you will need:

  • A Manjaro Linux installation
  • A user with administrator privileges

Installation Process

Follow these steps to install Touca on Manjaro:

  1. Open a terminal on your Manjaro system.
  2. Install the dependencies required for Touca using the package manager pacman:
    sudo pacman -S libcurl libgit2 cmake
    
  3. Download the latest Touca release tarball using wget:
    wget https://github.com/trytouca/touca-cpp/releases/latest/download/touca_latest.tar.gz
    
  4. Extract the contents of the tarball:
    tar zxvf touca_latest.tar.gz
    
  5. Change to the Touca directory:
    cd touca_latest
    
  6. Create a build directory and change to it:
    mkdir build
    cd build
    
  7. Run CMake to configure the build system:
    cmake ..
    
  8. Build and install Touca:
    make && sudo make install
    
  9. Verify that Touca is installed correctly by checking the version number:
    touca --version
    

Congratulations! Touca is now installed on your Manjaro system.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Touca on Manjaro. Touca is an excellent tool for testing software changes efficiently, and it's now ready for you to use on your system.