How To Install glance-common on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glance-common on Kali Linux.
What is glance-common
glance-common is:
The Glance project provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images over the cloud. They may be stand-alone services, or may be used to deliver images from object stores, such as OpenStack’s Swift service, to Nova’s compute nodes.
This package contains common files for Glance.
There are three methods to install glance-common 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 glance-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install glance-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glance-commonInstall glance-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install glance-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glance-commonInstall glance-common 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install glance-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glance-commonHow To Uninstall glance-common on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the glance-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glance-commonUninstall glance-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glance-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glance-commonRemove glance-common Configurations and Data
To remove glance-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glance-commonRemove glance-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glance-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glance-commonDependencies
glance-common have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glance-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
