How To Install fai-nfsroot on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fai-nfsroot
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fai-nfsroot
fai-nfsroot is:
FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to large infrastructures and clusters.
This package contains the software that is only needed in the FAI nfsroot. Do not install this package on a normal machine.
There are three methods to install fai-nfsroot
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fai-nfsroot Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fai-nfsroot
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fai-nfsroot
Install fai-nfsroot Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fai-nfsroot
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fai-nfsroot
Install fai-nfsroot 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fai-nfsroot
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fai-nfsroot
How To Uninstall fai-nfsroot on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fai-nfsroot
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fai-nfsroot
Uninstall fai-nfsroot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fai-nfsroot
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fai-nfsroot
Remove fai-nfsroot Configurations and Data
To remove fai-nfsroot
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fai-nfsroot
Remove fai-nfsroot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fai-nfsroot
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fai-nfsroot
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fai-nfsroot
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.