How To Install nova-xvpvncproxy on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-xvpvncproxy on Ubuntu 18.04. nova-xvpvncproxy is OpenStack Compute - XVP VNC proxy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-xvpvncproxy on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is nova-xvpvncproxy

nova-xvpvncproxy 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 VNC proxy. It is a publically reachable component which proxies access to VNCs running on compute nodes.

There are three methods to install nova-xvpvncproxy on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-xvpvncproxy 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-xvpvncproxy using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nova-xvpvncproxy

Install nova-xvpvncproxy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nova-xvpvncproxy

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

sudo aptitude -y install nova-xvpvncproxy

How To Uninstall nova-xvpvncproxy on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove nova-xvpvncproxy

Uninstall nova-xvpvncproxy And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nova-xvpvncproxy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-xvpvncproxy

Remove nova-xvpvncproxy Configurations and Data

To remove nova-xvpvncproxy configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nova-xvpvncproxy

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-xvpvncproxy package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.