How To Install heat-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install heat-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is heat-common
heat-common is:
Heat is a service to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications using templates, through both an OpenStack-native ReST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API.
This package contains the common files.
There are three methods to install heat-common 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-common 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-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install heat-common
Install heat-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install heat-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install heat-common
Install heat-common 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-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install heat-common
How To Uninstall heat-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the heat-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove heat-common
Uninstall heat-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall heat-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove heat-common
Remove heat-common Configurations and Data
To remove heat-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge heat-common
Remove heat-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove heat-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge heat-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install heat-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
