How To Install ironic-doc on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-doc on Debian 12.
What is ironic-doc
ironic-doc 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 documentation.
There are three methods to install ironic-doc on Debian 12. 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-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ironic-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ironic-doc
Install ironic-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ironic-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ironic-doc
Install ironic-doc 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ironic-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ironic-doc
How To Uninstall ironic-doc on Debian 12
To uninstall only the ironic-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ironic-doc
Uninstall ironic-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ironic-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ironic-doc
Remove ironic-doc Configurations and Data
To remove ironic-doc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ironic-doc
Remove ironic-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ironic-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ironic-doc
Dependencies
ironic-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ironic-doc package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.