How To Install gearman-server on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gearman-server on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gearman-server
gearman-server is:
Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls, or even to call functions between languages.
This package contains both the Gearman server as well as the corresponding Perl bindings.
There are three methods to install gearman-server 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 gearman-server Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gearman-server using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gearman-server
Install gearman-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gearman-server using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gearman-server
Install gearman-server 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 gearman-server using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gearman-server
How To Uninstall gearman-server on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gearman-server package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gearman-server
Uninstall gearman-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gearman-server and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gearman-server
Remove gearman-server Configurations and Data
To remove gearman-server configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gearman-server
Remove gearman-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gearman-server configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gearman-server
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gearman-server package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
