How To Install mcollective-plugins-service on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mcollective-plugins-service on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mcollective-plugins-service
mcollective-plugins-service is:
The service agent that lets you stop, start, restart, enable, disable and query the statuses of services on your Operating System
There are three methods to install mcollective-plugins-service 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 mcollective-plugins-service 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-plugins-service using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mcollective-plugins-service
Install mcollective-plugins-service Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mcollective-plugins-service using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mcollective-plugins-service
Install mcollective-plugins-service 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-plugins-service using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mcollective-plugins-service
How To Uninstall mcollective-plugins-service on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mcollective-plugins-service package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mcollective-plugins-service
Uninstall mcollective-plugins-service And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mcollective-plugins-service and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mcollective-plugins-service
Remove mcollective-plugins-service Configurations and Data
To remove mcollective-plugins-service configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mcollective-plugins-service
Remove mcollective-plugins-service configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mcollective-plugins-service configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mcollective-plugins-service
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mcollective-plugins-service package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
