How To Install glance on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glance on Debian 9.
What is glance
glance 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 is a metapackage for all glance daemons.
There are three methods to install glance on Debian 9. 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 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glance using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glance
Install glance Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glance using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glance
Install glance 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install glance using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glance
How To Uninstall glance on Debian 9
To uninstall only the glance package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glance
Uninstall glance And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glance and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glance
Remove glance Configurations and Data
To remove glance configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glance
Remove glance configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glance configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glance
Dependencies
glance have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glance package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.