How To Install pacemaker-dev on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install pacemaker-dev on Ubuntu 22.04. pacemaker-dev is cluster resource manager development

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pacemaker-dev on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is pacemaker-dev

pacemaker-dev is:

At its core, Pacemaker is a distributed finite state machine capable of co-ordinating the startup and recovery of inter-related services across a set of machines.

Pacemaker understands many different resource types (OCF, SYSV, systemd) and can accurately model the relationships between them (colocation, ordering).

It can even use technology such as Docker to automatically isolate the resources managed by the cluster.

This package contains the headers and other necessary files to build applications or libraries that use the Pacemaker libraries.

There are three methods to install pacemaker-dev 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 pacemaker-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pacemaker-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pacemaker-dev

Install pacemaker-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pacemaker-dev

Install pacemaker-dev 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 pacemaker-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pacemaker-dev

How To Uninstall pacemaker-dev on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the pacemaker-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pacemaker-dev

Uninstall pacemaker-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pacemaker-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pacemaker-dev

Remove pacemaker-dev Configurations and Data

To remove pacemaker-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pacemaker-dev

Remove pacemaker-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pacemaker-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pacemaker-dev package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.