Ubuntu – allure report installed but not findable

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Probably this is similar to any other installation issues, but I tried many options and no luck…

I am trying to install Allure Report on Ubuntu 18.04 (Docker image):

sudo apt-get install allure

I see that application is already instaled:

allure is already the newest version (0.5.0.0-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.

However, I cannot run it by typing: allure.
I tried: 

whereis allure

but also – no luck.

Another command which I tried doesn't look really helpful: 

selenium@ebb17170c6ad:/$ dpkg -L allure
/.
/usr
/usr/games
/usr/games/Allure
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/allure
/usr/share/doc/allure/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/allure/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/allure/copyright

and another one…

selenium@ebb17170c6ad:/$ sudo find / -name allure 
find: ‘/proc/1/map_files’: Permission denied
find: ‘/proc/1482/map_files’: Permission denied
/usr/share/doc/allure

Can you please give me a piece of advice on how to manage that?

The workaround is to download the file and install, below is a command for that, however I thought there is an easier way with the help of apt install 😉

curl -o allure-2.6.0.tgz -Ls https://dl.bintray.com/qameta/generic/io/qameta/allure/allure/2.6.0/allure-2.6.0.tgz && tar -zxvf allure-2.6.0.tgz -C /opt/ && ln -s /opt/allure-2.6.0/bin/allure /usr/bin/allure && allure --version

Thanks in advance

Best Answer

Download and install the latest Allure version as .tgz archive.

curl -o allure-2.6.0.tgz -Ls https://dl.bintray.com/qameta/generic/io/qameta/allure/allure/2.6.0/allure-2.6.0.tgz   
sudo tar -zxvf allure-2.6.0.tgz -C /opt/   
sudo ln -s /opt/allure-2.6.0/bin/allure /usr/bin/allure  
allure --version

You mentioned in the question that you are using an Ubuntu 18.04 Docker image, but there is also a dedicated Allure Docker Service image.

This docker container allows you to see up-to-date reports simply mounting your allure-results directory in the container. Every time new results appear (generated for your tests), Allure Docker Service will detect those changes and it will generate a new report automatically (optional: send results / generate reports through the API), which you will see by refreshing your web browser.

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