How To Install cockpit-machines on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-machines on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is cockpit-machines
cockpit-machines is:
The Cockpit Web Console enables users to administer GNU/Linux servers using a web browser.
This package adds an user interface for managing virtual machines.
If the “virtinst” package is installed, you can also create new virtual machines.
Package: cockpit-machines Architecture: all Version: 215-1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: cockpit Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 732 Depends: libvirt-daemon-system, libvirt-clients | libvirt-bin Recommends: virtinst, libvirt-dbus, python3-gi, gir1.2-libosinfo-1.0, qemu-block-extra Filename: pool/universe/c/cockpit/cockpit-machines_215-1_all.deb Size: 713424 MD5sum: ba1b9435ee7862420151fc6c63adbc2c SHA1: 7b1e9c425f923ec56d35186988f1af0cd35d9dc8 SHA256: 1489d7f64407520d043cca452ea2ba521774090c52560d2fb2db432db86ee08e Homepage: https://cockpit-project.org/ Description-en: Cockpit user interface for virtual machines The Cockpit components for managing virtual machines.
If the “virtinst” package is installed, you can also create new virtual machines.
There are three methods to install cockpit-machines 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 cockpit-machines Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cockpit-machines using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cockpit-machines
Install cockpit-machines Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cockpit-machines using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cockpit-machines
Install cockpit-machines 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 cockpit-machines using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cockpit-machines
How To Uninstall cockpit-machines on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the cockpit-machines package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cockpit-machines
Uninstall cockpit-machines And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cockpit-machines and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cockpit-machines
Remove cockpit-machines Configurations and Data
To remove cockpit-machines configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cockpit-machines
Remove cockpit-machines configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cockpit-machines configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cockpit-machines
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-machines package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
