How To Install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster on Ubuntu 18.04

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster

libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster is:

Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing a long term stable C API for different virtualization mechanisms. It currently supports QEMU, KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, LXC, and VirtualBox.

This package contains the libvirtd storage driver for GlusterFS.

There are three methods to install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster

Install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster

Install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster 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 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster

How To Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster

Uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster

Remove libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster Configurations and Data

To remove libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster

Remove libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster

References

• libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster website
• libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster on packages.ubuntu.com

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.