How To Install drbdlinks on Debian 10

Learn how to install drbdlinks on Debian 10 with this tutorial. drbdlinks is Manages symlinks into a shared DRBD partition

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install drbdlinks on Debian 10.

drbdlinks is:

Manages symlinks into a DRBD partition which is shared among several machines. A simple configuration file, “/etc/drbdlinks.conf”, specifies the links. This can be used to manage links for /etc/apache, /var/lib/pgsql, and other system directories that need to appear as if they are local to the system when running applications after a drbd shared partition has been mounted.

DRBD is a RAID 1 over TCP/IP solution, please have a look at the packages drbd-utils and drbd-module-source for more information.

There are three methods to install drbdlinks on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install drbdlinks

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install drbdlinks using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install drbdlinks

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 drbdlinks using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install drbdlinks

To uninstall only the drbdlinks package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove drbdlinks

To uninstall drbdlinks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove drbdlinks

To remove drbdlinks configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge drbdlinks

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge drbdlinks

Dependencies

drbdlinks have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install drbdlinks package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.