How To Install mistral-common on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install mistral-common on Kali Linux. mistral-common is OpenStack Workflow service - common files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mistral-common on Kali Linux.

What is mistral-common

mistral-common is:

Mistral is a workflow service. Most business processes consist of multiple distinct interconnected steps that need to be executed in a particular order in a distributed environment. One can describe such process as a set of tasks and task relations and upload such description to Mistral so that it takes care of state management, correct execution order, parallelism, synchronization and high availability. Mistral also provides flexible task scheduling so that it can run a process according to a specified schedule (i.e. every Sunday at 4.00pm) instead of running it immediately. Such set of tasks and relations between them is called a workflow.

This package contains common files and configuration.

There are three methods to install mistral-common on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mistral-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 mistral-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mistral-common

Install mistral-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mistral-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mistral-common

Install mistral-common Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install mistral-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mistral-common

How To Uninstall mistral-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the mistral-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mistral-common

Uninstall mistral-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mistral-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mistral-common

Remove mistral-common Configurations and Data

To remove mistral-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mistral-common

Remove mistral-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mistral-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mistral-common

Dependencies

mistral-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mistral-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.