How To Install euca2ools on Debian 10

Learn how to install euca2ools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. euca2ools is tools for interacting with AWS API-compatible services

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install euca2ools on Debian 10.

What is euca2ools

euca2ools is:

Command-line tools for interacting with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other AWS-compatible services, such as Eucalyptus and OpenStack, that export a REST/Query-based API compatible with Amazon EC2, IAM, and S3 services. The tools can be used with both Amazon’s services and with installations of the Eucalyptus open-source cloud-computing infrastructure. The tools were inspired by command-line tools distributed by Amazon (api-tools and ami-tools) and largely accept the same options and environment variables. However, these tools were implemented from scratch in Python.

There are three methods to install euca2ools 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 euca2ools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install euca2ools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install euca2ools

Install euca2ools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install euca2ools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install euca2ools

Install euca2ools 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 euca2ools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install euca2ools

How To Uninstall euca2ools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the euca2ools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove euca2ools

Uninstall euca2ools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall euca2ools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove euca2ools

Remove euca2ools Configurations and Data

To remove euca2ools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge euca2ools

Remove euca2ools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove euca2ools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge euca2ools

Dependencies

euca2ools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install euca2ools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.