How To Install neutron-server on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install neutron-server
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is neutron-server
neutron-server is:
Neutron is a virtual network service for Openstack, and a part of Netstack. Just like OpenStack Nova provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual servers, Neutron provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual networks. These networks connect “interfaces” from other OpenStack services (e.g., virtual NICs from Nova VMs). The Neutron API supports extensions to provide advanced network capabilities (e.g., QoS, ACLs, network monitoring, etc.)
This package provides the Neutron server
Package: neutron-server Architecture: all Version: 2:16.0.0~b3~git2020041516.5f42488a9a-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: net Source: neutron Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Chuck Short [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 48 Depends: adduser, python3-neutron (= 2:16.0.0~b3~git2020041516.5f42488a9a-0ubuntu2) Recommends: neutron-plugin-ml2 Filename: pool/main/n/neutron/neutron-server_16.0.0~b3~git2020041516.5f42488a9a-0ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 5172 MD5sum: 22cc2b316eaef9376ad59bb3ee34e459 SHA1: dc704da7ce827484247e2b7ba3d1b292d304ad6e SHA256: 778302b29b06f9225002f04a6580ab9401734f6874a13ea91f008d9e0859bb6f Homepage: https://docs.openstack.org/neutron Description-en: Neutron is a virtual network service for Openstack - server Neutron is a virtual network service for Openstack, and a part of Netstack. Just like OpenStack Nova provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual servers, Neutron provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual networks. These networks connect “interfaces” from other OpenStack services (e.g., virtual NICs from Nova VMs). The Neutron API supports extensions to provide advanced network capabilities (e.g., QoS, ACLs, network monitoring, etc.)
This package provides the Neutron server
There are three methods to install neutron-server
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 neutron-server Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install neutron-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install neutron-server
Install neutron-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install neutron-server
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install neutron-server
Install neutron-server 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 neutron-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install neutron-server
How To Uninstall neutron-server on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the neutron-server
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove neutron-server
Uninstall neutron-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall neutron-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove neutron-server
Remove neutron-server Configurations and Data
To remove neutron-server
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge neutron-server
Remove neutron-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove neutron-server
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neutron-server
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install neutron-server
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.