How To Install openafs-krb5 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openafs-krb5 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is openafs-krb5
openafs-krb5 is:
AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers. Facilities are provided for access control, authentication, backup and administrative management.
This package provides aklog, a utility for authenticating to AFS using Kerberos 5. It also provides asetkey, a utility to set AFS server keys from a Kerberos keytab, and ka-forwarder, a utility to forward kaserver requests to a KDC using fakeka.
Package: openafs-krb5 Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.8.4~pre1-1ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: openafs Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Benjamin Kaduk [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1341 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libhcrypto4-heimdal (>= 1.4.0+git20110226), libk5crypto3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.10+dfsg~), libroken18-heimdal (>= 1.4.0+git20110226) Breaks: openafs-client (« 1.4.7.dfsg1-1) Filename: pool/universe/o/openafs/openafs-krb5_1.8.4~pre1-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 262764 MD5sum: cadd2e59b0a57011e23030a2eafed3fc SHA1: c736903bcae11a970bacb2ecf27a308a8563a745 SHA256: e7d415120e2d096cbdec939ee1e7cb64a35b9290a1cbf8aa2abf65f433e433a2 Homepage: http://www.openafs.org/ Description-en: AFS distributed filesystem Kerberos 5 integration AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers. Facilities are provided for access control, authentication, backup and administrative management.
This package provides aklog, a utility for authenticating to AFS using Kerberos 5. It also provides asetkey, a utility to set AFS server keys from a Kerberos keytab, and ka-forwarder, a utility to forward kaserver requests to a KDC using fakeka.
There are three methods to install openafs-krb5 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 openafs-krb5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openafs-krb5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openafs-krb5
Install openafs-krb5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openafs-krb5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openafs-krb5
Install openafs-krb5 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 openafs-krb5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openafs-krb5
How To Uninstall openafs-krb5 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the openafs-krb5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openafs-krb5
Uninstall openafs-krb5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openafs-krb5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openafs-krb5
Remove openafs-krb5 Configurations and Data
To remove openafs-krb5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openafs-krb5
Remove openafs-krb5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openafs-krb5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openafs-krb5
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openafs-krb5 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
