How To Install fence-agents-common on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-common on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is fence-agents-common
fence-agents-common is:
Red Hat Fence Agents is a collection of scripts to handle remote power management for several devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.
This package provides common files used by the Fence Agents.
There are three methods to install fence-agents-common on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fence-agents-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 fence-agents-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fence-agents-common
Install fence-agents-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fence-agents-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fence-agents-common
Install fence-agents-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fence-agents-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fence-agents-common
How To Uninstall fence-agents-common on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the fence-agents-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fence-agents-common
Uninstall fence-agents-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fence-agents-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fence-agents-common
Remove fence-agents-common Configurations and Data
To remove fence-agents-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fence-agents-common
Remove fence-agents-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fence-agents-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fence-agents-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents-common package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
