How To Install euca2ools on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install euca2ools
on Debian 10.
What is euca2ools
euca2ools is:
Command-line tools for interacting with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other AWS-compatible services, such as Eucalyptus and OpenStack, that export a REST/Query-based API compatible with Amazon EC2, IAM, and S3 services. The tools can be used with both Amazon’s services and with installations of the Eucalyptus open-source cloud-computing infrastructure. The tools were inspired by command-line tools distributed by Amazon (api-tools and ami-tools) and largely accept the same options and environment variables. However, these tools were implemented from scratch in Python.
There are three methods to install euca2ools
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install euca2ools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install euca2ools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install euca2ools
Install euca2ools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install euca2ools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install euca2ools
Install euca2ools 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 euca2ools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install euca2ools
How To Uninstall euca2ools on Debian 10
To uninstall only the euca2ools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove euca2ools
Uninstall euca2ools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall euca2ools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove euca2ools
Remove euca2ools Configurations and Data
To remove euca2ools
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge euca2ools
Remove euca2ools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove euca2ools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge euca2ools
Dependencies
euca2ools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install euca2ools
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.