How To Install heat-cfntools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install heat-cfntools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is heat-cfntools
heat-cfntools is:
This package contains tools for use with CloudFormation cfn-init - Reads the AWS::CloudFormation::Init for the instance resource, installs packages, and starts services cfn-signal - Waits for an application to be ready before continuing, ie: supporting the WaitCondition feature cfn-hup - Handle updates from the UpdateStack CloudFormation API call
There are three methods to install heat-cfntools 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 heat-cfntools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install heat-cfntools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install heat-cfntools
Install heat-cfntools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install heat-cfntools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install heat-cfntools
Install heat-cfntools 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 heat-cfntools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install heat-cfntools
How To Uninstall heat-cfntools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the heat-cfntools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove heat-cfntools
Uninstall heat-cfntools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall heat-cfntools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove heat-cfntools
Remove heat-cfntools Configurations and Data
To remove heat-cfntools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge heat-cfntools
Remove heat-cfntools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove heat-cfntools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge heat-cfntools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install heat-cfntools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
