How To Install freezer-scheduler on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freezer-scheduler on Kali Linux.

What is freezer-scheduler

freezer-scheduler is:

Freezer is a distributed backup restore and disaster recovery as a service platform. It is designed to be multi OS (Linux, Windows, OSX, *BSD), focused on providing efficiency and flexibility for block based backups, file based incremental backups, point-in-time actions, jobs synchronization (i.e. backup synchronization over multiple nodes) and many other features. It is aimed at being useful for all environments, including large ephemeral Clouds.

This package contains scheduler daemon.

There are three methods to install freezer-scheduler 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 freezer-scheduler Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install freezer-scheduler

Install freezer-scheduler Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install freezer-scheduler

Install freezer-scheduler 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install freezer-scheduler using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install freezer-scheduler

How To Uninstall freezer-scheduler on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the freezer-scheduler package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove freezer-scheduler

Uninstall freezer-scheduler And Its Dependencies

To uninstall freezer-scheduler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove freezer-scheduler

Remove freezer-scheduler Configurations and Data

To remove freezer-scheduler configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge freezer-scheduler

Remove freezer-scheduler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freezer-scheduler

Dependencies

freezer-scheduler have the following dependencies:

• adduser
• debconf
• python3-freezer
• python3-keystoneclient
• python3-openstackclient
• python3-pastescript
• q-text-as-data
• debconf
• lsb-base

References

• freezer-scheduler website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freezer-scheduler package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.