How To Install heat-engine on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install heat-engine on Kali Linux.

What is heat-engine

heat-engine 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 heat engine, which is the core service of heat, and which the API servers will use.

There are three methods to install heat-engine 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 heat-engine 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-engine using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install heat-engine

Install heat-engine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install heat-engine using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install heat-engine

Install heat-engine 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install heat-engine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install heat-engine

How To Uninstall heat-engine on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the heat-engine package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove heat-engine

Uninstall heat-engine And Its Dependencies

To uninstall heat-engine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove heat-engine

Remove heat-engine Configurations and Data

To remove heat-engine configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge heat-engine

Remove heat-engine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove heat-engine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge heat-engine

Dependencies

heat-engine have the following dependencies:

• adduser
• heat-common

References

• heat-engine website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install heat-engine package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.