How To Install ironic-common on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-common on Kali Linux.
What is ironic-common
ironic-common is:
Ironic provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines. It is a fork of the Nova Baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI in concert to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.
This package provides the Ironic common files.
There are three methods to install ironic-common 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 ironic-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ironic-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ironic-commonInstall ironic-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ironic-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ironic-commonInstall ironic-common 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ironic-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ironic-commonHow To Uninstall ironic-common on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ironic-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ironic-commonUninstall ironic-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ironic-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ironic-commonRemove ironic-common Configurations and Data
To remove ironic-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ironic-commonRemove ironic-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ironic-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ironic-commonDependencies
ironic-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
