How To Install placement-common on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install placement-common on Ubuntu 22.04. placement-common is OpenStack Placement - common files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install placement-common on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is placement-common

placement-common 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 Placement provides an HTTP service for managing, selecting, and claiming providers of classes of inventory representing available resources in a cloud.

This package contains common files.

There are three methods to install placement-common 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 placement-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install placement-common

Install placement-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install placement-common

Install placement-common 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 placement-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install placement-common

How To Uninstall placement-common on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the placement-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove placement-common

Uninstall placement-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove placement-common

Remove placement-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge placement-common

Remove placement-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge placement-common

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Summary

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