How To Install dpm-srm-server-postgres on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dpm-srm-server-postgres
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is dpm-srm-server-postgres
dpm-srm-server-postgres is:
The LCG Disk Pool Manager (DPM) creates a storage element from a set of disks. It provides several interfaces for storing and retrieving data such as RFIO and SRM version 1, version 2 and version 2.2. This package provides a DPM SRM server that uses postgres as its database backend.
There are three methods to install dpm-srm-server-postgres
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dpm-srm-server-postgres Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dpm-srm-server-postgres
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dpm-srm-server-postgres
Install dpm-srm-server-postgres Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dpm-srm-server-postgres
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dpm-srm-server-postgres
Install dpm-srm-server-postgres 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 dpm-srm-server-postgres
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dpm-srm-server-postgres
How To Uninstall dpm-srm-server-postgres on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the dpm-srm-server-postgres
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dpm-srm-server-postgres
Uninstall dpm-srm-server-postgres And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dpm-srm-server-postgres
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dpm-srm-server-postgres
Remove dpm-srm-server-postgres Configurations and Data
To remove dpm-srm-server-postgres
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dpm-srm-server-postgres
Remove dpm-srm-server-postgres configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dpm-srm-server-postgres
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dpm-srm-server-postgres
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dpm-srm-server-postgres
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.