How To Install ceph-mgr-dashboard on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceph-mgr-dashboard on Kali Linux.
What is ceph-mgr-dashboard
ceph-mgr-dashboard is:
Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object, block and file system storage.
This package provides a ceph-mgr plugin, providing a web-based application to monitor and manage many aspects of a Ceph cluster and related components.
See the Dashboard documentation at http://docs.ceph.com/ for details and a detailed feature overview.
There are three methods to install ceph-mgr-dashboard on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ceph-mgr-dashboard Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ceph-mgr-dashboard using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ceph-mgr-dashboardInstall ceph-mgr-dashboard Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ceph-mgr-dashboard using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ceph-mgr-dashboardInstall ceph-mgr-dashboard Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ceph-mgr-dashboard using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ceph-mgr-dashboardHow To Uninstall ceph-mgr-dashboard on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ceph-mgr-dashboard package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ceph-mgr-dashboardUninstall ceph-mgr-dashboard And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ceph-mgr-dashboard and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceph-mgr-dashboardRemove ceph-mgr-dashboard Configurations and Data
To remove ceph-mgr-dashboard configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ceph-mgr-dashboardRemove ceph-mgr-dashboard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ceph-mgr-dashboard configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ceph-mgr-dashboardDependencies
ceph-mgr-dashboard have the following dependencies:
- ceph-mgr
- python3-bcrypt
- python3-cherrypy3
- python3-distutils
- python3-jwt
- python3-openssl
- python3-routes
- python3-werkzeug
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceph-mgr-dashboard package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.