How To Install ovn-ic on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ovn-ic on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ovn-ic
ovn-ic is:
OVN IC, the Open Virtual Network interconnection controller, is a centralized daemon which communicates with global interconnection databases to configure and exchange data with local OVN databases for interconnection with other OVN deployments.
This package provides the ovn-ic daemon which should be run alongside ovn-central services in each OVN deployment zone.
Package: ovn-ic Architecture: amd64 Version: 20.03.0-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: ovn Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Open vSwitch developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2750 Depends: lsb-base, lsb-release, ovn-common (= 20.03.0-0ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcap-ng0 (>= 0.7.9), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libunbound8 (>= 1.8.0) Suggests: ovn-ic-db Enhances: ovn-central Filename: pool/universe/o/ovn/ovn-ic_20.03.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 750092 MD5sum: 26bdc9f92c39e4779ccc293ea8e281e8 SHA1: 46beecb34cce3400aeed6977527aa5ba07ad07cc SHA256: 7e9646044cb5be3654d9539f01d05eb4722736ed7daf81415780b33bdf24ce5d Homepage: https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn Description-en: Open Virtual Network interconnection controller OVN IC, the Open Virtual Network interconnection controller, is a centralized daemon which communicates with global interconnection databases to configure and exchange data with local OVN databases for interconnection with other OVN deployments.
This package provides the ovn-ic daemon which should be run alongside ovn-central services in each OVN deployment zone.
There are three methods to install ovn-ic 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 ovn-ic Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ovn-ic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ovn-ic
Install ovn-ic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ovn-ic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ovn-ic
Install ovn-ic 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 ovn-ic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ovn-ic
How To Uninstall ovn-ic on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ovn-ic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ovn-ic
Uninstall ovn-ic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ovn-ic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ovn-ic
Remove ovn-ic Configurations and Data
To remove ovn-ic configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ovn-ic
Remove ovn-ic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ovn-ic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ovn-ic
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ovn-ic package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
