How To Install nfs-ganesha-gpfs on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nfs-ganesha-gpfs on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nfs-ganesha-gpfs
nfs-ganesha-gpfs is:
NFS-GANESHA is a NFS Server running in user space with a large cache. It comes with various backend modules to support different file systems and namespaces. Supported name spaces are POSIX, PROXY, SNMP, FUSE-like, HPSS, LUSTRE, XFS and ZFS. This package contains a library for a FSAL_GPFS and conf files.
Package: nfs-ganesha-gpfs Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.0.3-0ubuntu3 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libs Source: nfs-ganesha Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Philippe Deniel [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 202 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), nfs-ganesha (= 3.0.3-0ubuntu3) Filename: pool/universe/n/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha-gpfs_3.0.3-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 57864 MD5sum: 1503067192bec9996278dd003e59c596 SHA1: ffbcb55447265a878c79111a1b0b402c3919c90f SHA256: 0a71f86e4189cb16a2ddede6a60b79a4b7e2682eddab7d81822273635d5e987a Homepage: https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha Description-en: nfs-ganesha fsal gpfs libraries NFS-GANESHA is a NFS Server running in user space with a large cache. It comes with various backend modules to support different file systems and namespaces. Supported name spaces are POSIX, PROXY, SNMP, FUSE-like, HPSS, LUSTRE, XFS and ZFS. This package contains a library for a FSAL_GPFS and conf files.
There are three methods to install nfs-ganesha-gpfs 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 nfs-ganesha-gpfs Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nfs-ganesha-gpfs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nfs-ganesha-gpfs
Install nfs-ganesha-gpfs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nfs-ganesha-gpfs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nfs-ganesha-gpfs
Install nfs-ganesha-gpfs 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 nfs-ganesha-gpfs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nfs-ganesha-gpfs
How To Uninstall nfs-ganesha-gpfs on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nfs-ganesha-gpfs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nfs-ganesha-gpfs
Uninstall nfs-ganesha-gpfs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nfs-ganesha-gpfs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nfs-ganesha-gpfs
Remove nfs-ganesha-gpfs Configurations and Data
To remove nfs-ganesha-gpfs configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nfs-ganesha-gpfs
Remove nfs-ganesha-gpfs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nfs-ganesha-gpfs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nfs-ganesha-gpfs
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nfs-ganesha-gpfs package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.