How to install SoapUI in Ubuntu 16.04
How to install SoapUI in Ubuntu 16.04
SoapUI is a free and open source cross-platform Functional Testing solution. SoapUI creates and executes automated functional regression compliance and load tests with a graphical interface. In a single test environment, SoapUI provides complete test coverage and supports all the standard protocols and technologies. SoapUI can also be used for webservices inspection, development, REST API testing, SOAP testing and functional, compliance and load testing. Meet SoapUI, the world’ s most complete testing tool!
Major new features
&bull REST Mocking &ndash Easily create REST MockServices without scripting and test unavailable/prototype APIs.
&bull OAuth 2.0 support &ndash Test APIs using OAuth 2.0, group different OAuth 2.0 credentials into profiles, and automate your OAuth 2.0 tests to integrate with other build tools.
&bull (Pro only) REST Discovery &ndash Quickly get your undocumented API under test by recording your interactions with the API.
&bull (Pro only) REST Test Suite Builder &ndash Automatically create test suites from your recorded interactions with the API, making sure you test the right requests.
&bull (Pro only) REST Discovery + REST Mocking &ndash Seamlessly create REST Mocks using responses from REST Discovery recordings.
Improvements
&bull Introduced Script class for internal grouping of constants (Contribution from Marc Paquette)
&bull Added a (non-GUI) setting to control starting the Cajo server on startup (Contribution from Marc Paquette)
&bull Improved file chooser behavior in certain scenarios (Contribution from Marc Paquette)
&bull Added missing soapui.logroot configuration to the log4j definition of the GLOBAL_GROOVY_LOG (Contribution from Michael Ottati)
&bull IdleConnectionHandler is now correctly stopped (Contribution from Christoph Thelen)
&bull Normalize pathname for listeners, factories and root (SOAP-1424, Contribution from Marc Paquette)
Install SoapUI 5.0
Before installing SoapUI, Java JRE must be installed.
Add the repository for java JRE using add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java command.
root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
Oracle Java (JDK) Installer (automatically downloads and installs Oracle JDK7 / JDK8 / JDK9). There are no actual Java files in this PPA.
More info (and Ubuntu installation instructions):
- for Oracle Java 7: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-via.html
- for Oracle Java 8: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/install-oracle-java-8-in-ubuntu-via-ppa.html
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Once the repository is added, update the apt sources list using apt-get update.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.6 kB]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [247 kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [2,860 B]
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [2,860 B]
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [1,260 B]
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et:84 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/multiverse DEP-11 64x64 Icons [29 B]
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Reading package lists... Done
Then install java8 using apt install oracle-java8-installer.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt install oracle-java8-installer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: gsfonts-x11 java-common oracle-java8-set-default Suggested packages: binfmt-support visualvm ttf-baekmuk | ttf-unfonts | ttf-unfonts-core ttf-kochi-gothic | ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho | ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-arphic-uming The following NEW packages will be installed: gsfonts-x11 java-common oracle-java8-installer oracle-java8-set-default 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 372 not upgraded. Need to get 44.2 kB of archives. After this operation, 245 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y . . Setting up gsfonts-x11 (0.24) ... Setting up oracle-java8-set-default (8u111+8u111arm-1~webupd8~0) ...
Download Soap UI
SoapUI 5.0 tar without Java can be installed in your system or SoapUI can be installed by entering the tar package in the terminal along with the download link and press Enter.
root@linuxhelp:~# wget http://cdn01.downloads.smartbear.com/soapui/5.3.0/SoapUI-5.3.0-linux-bin.tar.gz
--2016-12-16 05:45:19-- http://cdn01.downloads.smartbear.com/soapui/5.3.0/SoapUI-5.3.0-linux-bin.tar.gz
Resolving cdn01.downloads.smartbear.com (cdn01.downloads.smartbear.com)... 23.76.157.130, 23.76.157.123, 2600:1417:56::174c:9d82, ...
Connecting to cdn01.downloads.smartbear.com (cdn01.downloads.smartbear.com)|23.76.157.130|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 48972753 (47M) [application/gzip]
Saving to: ‘ SoapUI-5.3.0-linux-bin.tar.gz’
SoapUI-5.3.0-linux- 100%[===================> ] 46.70M 1024KB/s in 49s
2016-12-16 05:46:10 (976 KB/s) - ‘ SoapUI-5.3.0-linux-bin.tar.gz’ saved [48972753/48972753]
Extract Contents
The downloaded SoapUI tar file can be extracted using tar -xzf SoapUI-5.3.0-linux-bin.tar.gz -C /opt/
root@linuxhelp:~# tar -xzf SoapUI-5.3.0-linux-bin.tar.gz -C /opt/
To Install SoapUI
To change the directory use cd /opt/SoapUI-5.3.0/bin
root@linuxhelp:~# cd /opt/SoapUI-5.3.0/bin/
Run the ./soapui.sh command to install SoapUI.
root@linuxhelp:/opt/SoapUI-5.3.0/bin# ./soapui.sh
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