How To Install python-os-brick on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-os-brick
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-os-brick
python-os-brick is:
OpenStack Cinder brick library for managing local volume attaches.
Features discovery of volumes being attached to a host for many transport protocols and removal of volumes from a host.
This package contains the Python 2.x module.
There are three methods to install python-os-brick
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python-os-brick 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-os-brick
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-os-brick
Install python-os-brick Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-os-brick
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-os-brick
Install python-os-brick 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 python-os-brick
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-os-brick
How To Uninstall python-os-brick on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-os-brick
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-os-brick
Uninstall python-os-brick And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-os-brick
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-os-brick
Remove python-os-brick Configurations and Data
To remove python-os-brick
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-os-brick
Remove python-os-brick configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-os-brick
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-os-brick
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-os-brick
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.