How To Install cinder-doc on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install cinder-doc on Debian 9. cinder-doc is OpenStack block storage system - doc

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cinder-doc on Debian 9.

What is cinder-doc

cinder-doc is:

Cinder is a block Storage-as-a-Service system for the OpenStack cloud computing suite. It re-implements the features of Nova-volume, which it directly replaces.

Cinder uses LVM partitions of your volume servers in order to provide iSCSI permanent block storage devices for your virtual machines running on Nova. It also has back-end drivers for many hardware and software storage solutions like Ceph, NFS, Net-APP, etc.

This package contains the documentation.

There are three methods to install cinder-doc on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cinder-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install cinder-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cinder-doc

Install cinder-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cinder-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cinder-doc

Install cinder-doc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install cinder-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cinder-doc

How To Uninstall cinder-doc on Debian 9

To uninstall only the cinder-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cinder-doc

Uninstall cinder-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cinder-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cinder-doc

Remove cinder-doc Configurations and Data

To remove cinder-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cinder-doc

Remove cinder-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cinder-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cinder-doc

Dependencies

cinder-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cinder-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.