How To Install nova-spiceproxy on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-spiceproxy on Ubuntu 20.04. nova-spiceproxy is OpenStack Compute - spice html5 proxy OpenStack Compute - spice html5 proxy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-spiceproxy on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is nova-spiceproxy

nova-spiceproxy 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 provides the spice proxy. It is a publically reachable component which proxies access to qemu-space running on compute nodes

Package: nova-spiceproxy 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: 60 Depends: python3-nova (= 2:21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2), spice-html5 Filename: pool/main/n/nova/nova-spiceproxy_21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 6564 MD5sum: 2d87218539baaacb4b735fe05fad5eda SHA1: 6f823b47a335a563859f52e250ee7c21fff58418 SHA256: f20b3f9cf90da1455d65a16fb7859656c66bbaeefb7df8cb04f361f0933c72d5 Homepage: https://launchpad.net/nova Description-en: OpenStack Compute - spice html5 proxy 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 provides the spice proxy. It is a publically reachable component which proxies access to qemu-space running on compute nodes

There are three methods to install nova-spiceproxy 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-spiceproxy 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-spiceproxy using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nova-spiceproxy

Install nova-spiceproxy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nova-spiceproxy

Install nova-spiceproxy 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-spiceproxy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nova-spiceproxy

How To Uninstall nova-spiceproxy on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove nova-spiceproxy

Uninstall nova-spiceproxy And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nova-spiceproxy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-spiceproxy

Remove nova-spiceproxy Configurations and Data

To remove nova-spiceproxy configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nova-spiceproxy

Remove nova-spiceproxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-spiceproxy

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-spiceproxy package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.