How To Install fence-agents on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is fence-agents
fence-agents 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 is a transitional package which provides a set of curated (fence-agents-base) and non-curated (fence-agents-extra) agents.
There are three methods to install fence-agents 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fence-agents
Install fence-agents Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fence-agents using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fence-agents
Install fence-agents 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fence-agents
How To Uninstall fence-agents on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the fence-agents package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fence-agents
Uninstall fence-agents And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fence-agents 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
Remove fence-agents Configurations and Data
To remove fence-agents configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fence-agents
Remove fence-agents configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fence-agents configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fence-agents
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fence-agents package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
