How To Install ironic-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-doc on Kali Linux. ironic-doc is bare metal hypervisor API for OpenStack - doc

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-doc on Kali Linux.

What is ironic-doc

ironic-doc is:

Ironic provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines. It is a fork of 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 provides the Ironic documentation.

There are three methods to install ironic-doc on Kali Linux. 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-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ironic-doc

Install ironic-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ironic-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ironic-doc

Install ironic-doc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ironic-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ironic-doc

How To Uninstall ironic-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ironic-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ironic-doc

Uninstall ironic-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ironic-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ironic-doc

Remove ironic-doc Configurations and Data

To remove ironic-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ironic-doc

Remove ironic-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ironic-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ironic-doc

Dependencies

ironic-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-doc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.