How To Install congress-common on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install congress-common on Debian 9. congress-common is OpenStack Policy as a Service - common files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install congress-common on Debian 9.

What is congress-common

congress-common is:

Congress is an OpenStack project to provide policy as a service across any collection of cloud services in order to offer governance and compliance for dynamic infrastructures.

This package contains common files and configuration that are needed by all the daemon packages of Cinder.

There are three methods to install congress-common 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 congress-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install congress-common

Install congress-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install congress-common

Install congress-common 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 congress-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install congress-common

How To Uninstall congress-common on Debian 9

To uninstall only the congress-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove congress-common

Uninstall congress-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove congress-common

Remove congress-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge congress-common

Remove congress-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge congress-common

Dependencies

congress-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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