How To Install python-glanceclient on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-glanceclient on Debian 9.
What is python-glanceclient
python-glanceclient is:
The Glance project provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images over the cloud. They may be stand-alone services, or may be used to deliver images from object stores, such as OpenStack’s Swift service, to Nova’s compute nodes.
This is a client for the Glance which uses the OpenStack Image API. There’s a Python API (the “glanceclient” module), and a command-line script (“glance”).
This package provides the Python 2.x module.
There are three methods to install python-glanceclient on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python-glanceclient Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-glanceclient using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-glanceclient
Install python-glanceclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-glanceclient using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-glanceclient
Install python-glanceclient 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install python-glanceclient using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-glanceclient
How To Uninstall python-glanceclient on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-glanceclient package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-glanceclient
Uninstall python-glanceclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-glanceclient and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-glanceclient
Remove python-glanceclient Configurations and Data
To remove python-glanceclient configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-glanceclient
Remove python-glanceclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-glanceclient configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-glanceclient
Dependencies
python-glanceclient have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-glanceclient package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
