Ass is a cross-platform command-line tool to manage Access Server appliances. This tutorial will guide you through the steps to install Ass on Debian latest.
Before proceeding with this tutorial, you must have the following prerequisites:
Ass is available on the GitHub repository, and to clone and install it, you need to install the Git command-line tool on your system. To install Git, run the following command:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git
After installing Git, you can clone the Ass GitHub repository to your local machine. To do so, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/tycrek/ass.git
Ass is written in Python, so you need to install Python on your machine. To install Python, run the following command:
sudo apt install python3
Ass requires pip to install its dependencies. To install pip, run the following command:
sudo apt install python3-pip
Ass requires some dependencies to function correctly, so you need to install them after installing pip. To install Ass dependencies, run the following command:
sudo pip3 install -r ass/requirements.txt
After installing all the prerequisites, you can now install Ass on your machine. To install Ass, navigate to the ass directory that you cloned earlier and run the following command:
sudo python3 setup.py install
To verify that Ass is installed correctly, you can run the ass command, and it should display the help documentation. To do so, run the following command:
ass -h
If you see the Ass help documentation, then Ass is successfully installed on your machine.
This tutorial guided you through the steps to install Ass on Debian latest. You can now use Ass to manage Access Server appliances from the command-line.
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