How To Install drbdlinks on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install drbdlinks
on Debian 10.
What is drbdlinks
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.
Install drbdlinks Using apt-get
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
Install drbdlinks Using apt
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
Install drbdlinks 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 drbdlinks
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install drbdlinks
How To Uninstall drbdlinks on Debian 10
To uninstall only the drbdlinks
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove drbdlinks
Uninstall drbdlinks And Its Dependencies
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
Remove drbdlinks Configurations and Data
To remove drbdlinks
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge drbdlinks
Remove drbdlinks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
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
.