How To Install ironic-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ironic-common
ironic-common is:
Ironic is an Incubated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova Baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI in concert to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.
This package contains the common files.
Package: ironic-common Architecture: all Version: 1:14.0.1~git2020041013.af9e6ba90-0ubuntu2 Priority: extra Section: universe/net Source: ironic Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Chuck Short [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 177 Depends: adduser, psmisc Breaks: ironic-api (« 1:11.1.0-0ubuntu3~), ironic-conductor (« 1:11.1.0-0ubuntu3~) Replaces: ironic-api (« 1:11.1.0-0ubuntu3~), ironic-conductor (« 1:11.1.0-0ubuntu3~) Filename: pool/universe/i/ironic/ironic-common_14.0.1~git2020041013.af9e6ba90-0ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 33972 MD5sum: a8c2a954bfa3b658bd7f157cfb7bd03f SHA1: a6b07945f2dc65b78776409d23a9b5c370452a94 SHA256: 2f78b7d7db1c0a2c0e7a5744bb01772c07208ac0de2e6c53d4f7a61a07413ca0 Description-en: Openstack bare metal provisioning service - daemons Ironic is an Incubated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova Baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI in concert to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.
This package contains the common files.
There are three methods to install ironic-common on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ironic-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 ironic-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ironic-common
Install ironic-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ironic-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ironic-common
Install ironic-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 ironic-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ironic-common
How To Uninstall ironic-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ironic-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ironic-common
Uninstall ironic-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ironic-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ironic-common
Remove ironic-common Configurations and Data
To remove ironic-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ironic-common
Remove ironic-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ironic-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ironic-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
