How To Install heat-tempest-plugin on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install heat-tempest-plugin on Kali Linux. heat-tempest-plugin is OpenStack Integration Test Suite - Heat plugin

Introduction

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

What is heat-tempest-plugin

heat-tempest-plugin is:

Tempest is a set of integration tests to be run against a live Openstack cluster in order to make sure that all components are working as expected. Tempest will start and stop virtual machine in order to check that your cloud is working as expected.

This package contains the Heat plugin.

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

sudo apt-get -y install heat-tempest-plugin

Install heat-tempest-plugin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install heat-tempest-plugin

Install heat-tempest-plugin 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-tempest-plugin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install heat-tempest-plugin

How To Uninstall heat-tempest-plugin on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove heat-tempest-plugin

Uninstall heat-tempest-plugin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove heat-tempest-plugin

Remove heat-tempest-plugin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge heat-tempest-plugin

Remove heat-tempest-plugin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge heat-tempest-plugin

Dependencies

heat-tempest-plugin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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