IDAaaS Clean/Dirty Install Smoke Tests :soap: :hankey:

[koshchii]

An IDAaaS session link will be shared with you. It will either be a no-GPU or a GPU IDAaaS instance. All IDAaaS-installed packages are Conda installs.

Before testing:

• Check this testing issue relates to the OS you will test on.
• If unassigned, please assign yourself as for a normal Github issue.
• Please run these tests on the release package of Mantid; not a locally built version.

Afterwards:

• Comment below with any issues you came across.
• If no major issues were found, please close this testing issue.
• Check the main issue for this OS for other unassigned smoke tests.

If you have any questions please contact the creator of this issue.

:soap: :hankey:

Dirty install

• Make sure that you have several versions of Mantid installed
  • Last release
  • A nightly
  • If possible an old release
• Install the new release candidate of Mantid
• [x] Check that Mantid boots up correctly

Clean install

• Remove all existing Mantid versions and associated files

On Windows:

• Uninstall the program
• Clear shortcuts from desktop
• Remove the mantid files in %APPDATA%

On macOS :

• Remove the application
• Remove the ~/.mantid directory
• Remove (or rename) ~/Library/Preferences/org.python.python.Python.plist and ~/Library/Preferences/org.python.python.plist

On Linux :

• Remove the package: /opt/Mantid
• Remove ~/.config/Mantid
• Remove ~/.mantid/

Re-install the new release candidate of Mantid

• [x] Check that Mantid boots up correctly

[warunawickramasingha]

Followed the test instructions on IDAaaS dev instance for clean install by removing the existing installs and dirty install in IDAaaS prod instance and mantid booted up correctly in both cases.