How To Install ionit on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ionit
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ionit
ionit is:
ionit is a simple and small configuration templating tool. It collects a context and renders Jinja templates in a given directory. The context can be either static JSON or YAML files or dynamic Python files. Python files can also define functions passed through to the rendering.
ionit comes with an early boot one shot service that is executed before the networking service which allows one to generate configurations files for the networking and other services before they are started. In this regard, ionit can act as tiny stepbrother of cloud-init.
There are three methods to install ionit
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ionit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ionit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ionit
Install ionit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ionit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ionit
Install ionit 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 ionit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ionit
How To Uninstall ionit on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ionit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ionit
Uninstall ionit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ionit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ionit
Remove ionit Configurations and Data
To remove ionit
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ionit
Remove ionit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ionit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ionit
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ionit
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.