How To Install kea on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kea
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is kea
kea is:
Kea is an IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP server developed by Internet Systems Consortium providing a very high-performance with PostgreSQL, MySQL and memfile backends.
This is a metapackage that depends on all server components of Kea.
There are three methods to install kea
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 kea Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kea
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kea
Install kea Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kea
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kea
Install kea 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 kea
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kea
How To Uninstall kea on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the kea
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kea
Uninstall kea And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kea
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kea
Remove kea Configurations and Data
To remove kea
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kea
Remove kea configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kea
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kea
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kea
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.