How To Install image-factory on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install image-factory
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is image-factory
image-factory is:
image-factory is a command line tool for building golden Linux images. It uses virt-install to do installations via the network. The installation and configuration of the images is done using the netinstall support from the distributions, i.e.
- preseed for Debian/Ubuntu
- Kickstart for CentOS/Fedora
- AutoYaST for openSUSE
image-factory is used by IONOS Cloud to build the golden public Linux images for their Enterprise Cloud. The configuration files are shipped with this project to allow anyone to rebuild their images.
There are three methods to install image-factory
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install image-factory Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install image-factory
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install image-factory
Install image-factory Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install image-factory
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install image-factory
Install image-factory 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 image-factory
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install image-factory
How To Uninstall image-factory on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the image-factory
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove image-factory
Uninstall image-factory And Its Dependencies
To uninstall image-factory
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove image-factory
Remove image-factory Configurations and Data
To remove image-factory
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge image-factory
Remove image-factory configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove image-factory
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge image-factory
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install image-factory
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.