How To Install sanlock on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sanlock on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is sanlock
sanlock is:
Sanlock ensures that single disk cannot be used by more than one running VM at a time, across any host in a network.
This package contains the binaries and private shared libraries.
Package: sanlock Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.6.0-4build1 Priority: optional Section: universe/libs Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 308 Depends: libaio1 (>= 0.3.93), libblkid1 (>= 2.17.2), libc6 (>= 2.17), libsanlock1 (>= 3.3.0), libuuid1 (>= 2.16), adduser Filename: pool/universe/s/sanlock/sanlock_3.6.0-4build1_amd64.deb Size: 114056 MD5sum: 79985bbeb0f7e5cd5626ad63eb587994 SHA1: 2dc170a415d5c32876bda59890057c61314ab16c SHA256: 0cf8bb2cc3c9da09487de5e8c0536d1e0b08629aac5396667c27838e7a38dafc Homepage: https://fedorahosted.org/sanlock/ Description-en: Shared storage lock manager Sanlock ensures that single disk cannot be used by more than one running VM at a time, across any host in a network.
This package contains the binaries and private shared libraries.
There are three methods to install sanlock 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 sanlock Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sanlock using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sanlock
Install sanlock Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sanlock using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sanlock
Install sanlock 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 sanlock using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sanlock
How To Uninstall sanlock on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the sanlock package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sanlock
Uninstall sanlock And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sanlock and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sanlock
Remove sanlock Configurations and Data
To remove sanlock configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sanlock
Remove sanlock configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sanlock configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sanlock
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sanlock package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
