How To Install maas on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install maas on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is maas
maas is:
This is a transitional package. It can be safely removed.
Package: maas Architecture: all Version: 1:0.6 Priority: optional Section: net Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 20 Provides: bind9, chrony, isc-dhcp-server, maas-cli, maas-common, maas-dhcp, maas-dns, maas-proxy, maas-rack-controller, maas-region-api, maas-region-controller Pre-Depends: debconf, snapd Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Conflicts: bind9, chrony, isc-dhcp-server, maas-cli, maas-common, maas-dhcp, maas-dns, maas-proxy Breaks: maas-rack-controller (« 1:0.1~), maas-region-api (« 1:0.1~), maas-region-controller (« 1:0.1~) Replaces: bind9, chrony, isc-dhcp-server, maas-cli, maas-common, maas-dhcp, maas-dns, maas-proxy, maas-rack-controller (« 1:0.1~), maas-region-api (« 1:0.1~), maas-region-controller (« 1:0.1~) Filename: pool/main/m/maas/maas_0.6_all.deb Size: 4444 MD5sum: 3ec9417b16aab3f41efb79840b40798b SHA1: ea87a2bc65f0a4d79a219a51d89e5345827d68b6 SHA256: c5c4f833a1d643108910fff21e1a70400671e548bfade4c6f22999c5c9ed7883 Homepage: https://maas.io/ Description-en: Transitional package to the maas snap This is a transitional package. It can be safely removed.
There are three methods to install maas 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 maas Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install maas using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install maas
Install maas Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install maas using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install maas
Install maas 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 maas using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install maas
How To Uninstall maas on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the maas package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove maas
Uninstall maas And Its Dependencies
To uninstall maas and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove maas
Remove maas Configurations and Data
To remove maas configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge maas
Remove maas configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove maas configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maas
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install maas package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.