How To Install magnum-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install magnum-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is magnum-common
magnum-common is:
Magnum is an OpenStack project which offers container orchestration engines for deploying and managing containers as first class resources in OpenStack. It features:
- Abstractions for bays, containers, nodes, pods, replication controllers, and services
- Integration with Kubernetes and Docker for backend container technology
- Integration with Keystone for multi-tenant security
- Integration with Neutron for Kubernetes multi-tenancy network security
This package contains common files for the engine and the conductor.
There are three methods to install magnum-common 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 magnum-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install magnum-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install magnum-common
Install magnum-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install magnum-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install magnum-common
Install magnum-common 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 magnum-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install magnum-common
How To Uninstall magnum-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the magnum-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove magnum-common
Uninstall magnum-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall magnum-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove magnum-common
Remove magnum-common Configurations and Data
To remove magnum-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge magnum-common
Remove magnum-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove magnum-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge magnum-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install magnum-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.