How To Install nova-spiceproxy on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-spiceproxy
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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
There are three methods to install nova-spiceproxy
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-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 22.04
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 22.04, 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 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-spiceproxy
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.