How To Install mcollective-client on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mcollective-client
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mcollective-client
mcollective-client is:
The Marionette Collective is a framework for building server orchestration and parallel job execution systems.
This package provides the MCollective client utility:
- mco
There are three methods to install mcollective-client
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mcollective-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mcollective-client
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mcollective-client
Install mcollective-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mcollective-client
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mcollective-client
Install mcollective-client 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 mcollective-client
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mcollective-client
How To Uninstall mcollective-client on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mcollective-client
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mcollective-client
Uninstall mcollective-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mcollective-client
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mcollective-client
Remove mcollective-client Configurations and Data
To remove mcollective-client
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mcollective-client
Remove mcollective-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mcollective-client
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mcollective-client
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mcollective-client
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.