How To Install nova-network on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-network on Debian 9.
What is nova-network
nova-network 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 package equips a system to function as a network node. This service is responsible for managing floating and fixed IP addresses, DHCP, bridging, and VLANs, and in some cases acts as a gateway. Different networking strategies can be accessed by setting the network_manager flag to FlatManager, FlatDHCPManager, or VlanManager (the default).
There are three methods to install nova-network on Debian 9. 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-network 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-network using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nova-network
Install nova-network Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-network using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nova-network
Install nova-network 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-network using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nova-network
How To Uninstall nova-network on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nova-network package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nova-network
Uninstall nova-network And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nova-network and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-network
Remove nova-network Configurations and Data
To remove nova-network configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nova-network
Remove nova-network configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nova-network configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-network
Dependencies
nova-network have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-network package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
