How To Install facter-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install facter-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is facter-dev
facter-dev is:
Facter is Puppet’s cross-platform system profiling library. It discovers and reports per-node facts, which are collected by the Puppet agent and are made available in Puppet manifests as variables. Facter comes with a number of built-in facts providing information about the operating system, hardware, SSH keys, etc., but is also easily extensible through the following interfaces:
- Through custom facts using Facter’s Ruby API.
- Through `external’ facts which can be either executables, or static data files.
This package contains development files allowing 3rd party applications to use facter.
There are three methods to install facter-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install facter-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install facter-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install facter-dev
Install facter-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install facter-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install facter-dev
Install facter-dev 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 facter-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install facter-dev
How To Uninstall facter-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the facter-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove facter-dev
Uninstall facter-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall facter-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove facter-dev
Remove facter-dev Configurations and Data
To remove facter-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge facter-dev
Remove facter-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove facter-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge facter-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install facter-dev
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.