How To Install nova-compute-qemu on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-compute-qemu on Debian 12.
What is nova-compute-qemu
nova-compute-qemu 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 designed to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. In addition to its “native” OpenStack API, it also supports the Amazon EC2 API, and it supports many different database backends (including SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL), hypervisors (KVM, Xen), and user directory systems (LDAP, SQL).
This is a dependency package for compute nodes using QEmu.
There are three methods to install nova-compute-qemu on Debian 12. 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-qemu 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-qemu using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nova-compute-qemu
Install nova-compute-qemu Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-compute-qemu using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nova-compute-qemu
Install nova-compute-qemu 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-compute-qemu using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nova-compute-qemu
How To Uninstall nova-compute-qemu on Debian 12
To uninstall only the nova-compute-qemu package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nova-compute-qemu
Uninstall nova-compute-qemu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nova-compute-qemu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-compute-qemu
Remove nova-compute-qemu Configurations and Data
To remove nova-compute-qemu configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nova-compute-qemu
Remove nova-compute-qemu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nova-compute-qemu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-compute-qemu
Dependencies
nova-compute-qemu have the following dependencies:
- adduser
- dpkg-dev
- libvirt-daemon-system
- nova-common
- nova-compute
- python3-libvirt
- qemu-system
- qemu-block-extra
- swtpm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-compute-qemu package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
