How To Install heat-api-cloudwatch on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install heat-api-cloudwatch on Debian 9. heat-api-cloudwatch is OpenStack orchestration service - CloudWatch API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install heat-api-cloudwatch on Debian 9.

What is heat-api-cloudwatch

heat-api-cloudwatch is:

Heat is a service to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications using templates, through both an OpenStack-native ReST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API.

This package contains the CloudWatch API.

There are three methods to install heat-api-cloudwatch 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 heat-api-cloudwatch Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install heat-api-cloudwatch using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install heat-api-cloudwatch

Install heat-api-cloudwatch Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install heat-api-cloudwatch using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install heat-api-cloudwatch

Install heat-api-cloudwatch 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 heat-api-cloudwatch using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install heat-api-cloudwatch

How To Uninstall heat-api-cloudwatch on Debian 9

To uninstall only the heat-api-cloudwatch package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove heat-api-cloudwatch

Uninstall heat-api-cloudwatch And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove heat-api-cloudwatch

Remove heat-api-cloudwatch Configurations and Data

To remove heat-api-cloudwatch configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge heat-api-cloudwatch

Remove heat-api-cloudwatch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove heat-api-cloudwatch configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge heat-api-cloudwatch

Dependencies

heat-api-cloudwatch have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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