How To Install nova-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nova-common
nova-common is:
OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.
OpenStack Compute, codenamed Nova, is a cloud computing fabric controller. In addition to its “native” API (the OpenStack API), it also supports the Amazon EC2 API.
Nova is intended to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. It supports many different hypervisors (KVM and Xen to name a few), different database backends (SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, for instance), different types of user databases (LDAP or SQL), etc.
This package contains things that are needed by all parts of Nova.
Package: nova-common Architecture: all Version: 2:21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2 Priority: extra Section: net Source: nova Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Openstack Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 330 Depends: adduser Breaks: nova-ajax-console-proxy (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-api (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-api-metadata (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-api-os-compute (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-cells (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-compute (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-compute-libvirt (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-compute-vmware (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-conductor (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-console (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-network (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-novncproxy (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-placement-api (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-scheduler (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-serialproxy (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-spiceproxy (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-xvpvncproxy (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), python-nova (« 2:18.0.0-0ubuntu2~) Replaces: nova-ajax-console-proxy (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-api (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-api-metadata (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-api-os-compute (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-cells (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-compute (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-compute-libvirt (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-compute-vmware (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-conductor (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-console (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-network (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-novncproxy (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-placement-api (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-scheduler (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-serialproxy (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-spiceproxy (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), nova-xvpvncproxy (« 2:18.0.0~b2-0ubuntu3~), python-nova (« 2:18.0.0-0ubuntu2~) Filename: pool/main/n/nova/nova-common_21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 64036 MD5sum: 1f888420667687690904efa3c3a09da0 SHA1: f31f49347e20988fdae56f5d4e3ca18cf9add840 SHA256: 9a431e1186d50261569790f5fbcfa96111dac694940154384c61967fe7bf4a9f Homepage: https://launchpad.net/nova Description-en: OpenStack Compute - common files OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.
OpenStack Compute, codenamed Nova, is a cloud computing fabric controller. In addition to its “native” API (the OpenStack API), it also supports the Amazon EC2 API.
Nova is intended to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. It supports many different hypervisors (KVM and Xen to name a few), different database backends (SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, for instance), different types of user databases (LDAP or SQL), etc.
This package contains things that are needed by all parts of Nova.
There are three methods to install nova-common 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 nova-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nova-common
Install nova-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nova-common
Install nova-common 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 nova-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nova-common
How To Uninstall nova-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nova-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nova-common
Uninstall nova-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nova-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-common
Remove nova-common Configurations and Data
To remove nova-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nova-common
Remove nova-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nova-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
