How To Install nova-compute-libvirt on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-compute-libvirt on Ubuntu 22.04. nova-compute-libvirt is OpenStack Compute - compute node libvirt support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-compute-libvirt on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is nova-compute-libvirt

nova-compute-libvirt 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 dependency package provides common dependencies and setup for all libvirt based hypervisor options.

There are three methods to install nova-compute-libvirt on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-compute-libvirt 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-compute-libvirt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nova-compute-libvirt

Install nova-compute-libvirt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install nova-compute-libvirt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install nova-compute-libvirt

Install nova-compute-libvirt 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-compute-libvirt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nova-compute-libvirt

How To Uninstall nova-compute-libvirt on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the nova-compute-libvirt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nova-compute-libvirt

Uninstall nova-compute-libvirt And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nova-compute-libvirt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-compute-libvirt

Remove nova-compute-libvirt Configurations and Data

To remove nova-compute-libvirt configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nova-compute-libvirt

Remove nova-compute-libvirt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove nova-compute-libvirt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-compute-libvirt

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-compute-libvirt package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.