How To Install mcollective-plugins-puppetral on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install mcollective-plugins-puppetral on Ubuntu 20.04. mcollective-plugins-puppetral is mcollective plugin for puppet ralsh

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mcollective-plugins-puppetral on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is mcollective-plugins-puppetral

mcollective-plugins-puppetral is:

An agent that lets you use any of the Puppet providers over SimpleRPC. This agent is essentially at prototype/experiment stage, the theory is that there might be a ralsh equivalent that use mcollective as transport.

There are three methods to install mcollective-plugins-puppetral 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 mcollective-plugins-puppetral Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mcollective-plugins-puppetral using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mcollective-plugins-puppetral

Install mcollective-plugins-puppetral Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mcollective-plugins-puppetral using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mcollective-plugins-puppetral

Install mcollective-plugins-puppetral 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 mcollective-plugins-puppetral using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mcollective-plugins-puppetral

How To Uninstall mcollective-plugins-puppetral on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the mcollective-plugins-puppetral package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mcollective-plugins-puppetral

Uninstall mcollective-plugins-puppetral And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mcollective-plugins-puppetral and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mcollective-plugins-puppetral

Remove mcollective-plugins-puppetral Configurations and Data

To remove mcollective-plugins-puppetral configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mcollective-plugins-puppetral

Remove mcollective-plugins-puppetral configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mcollective-plugins-puppetral configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mcollective-plugins-puppetral

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mcollective-plugins-puppetral package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.