How To Install mistral-executor on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mistral-executor on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mistral-executor
mistral-executor 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 the Executor.
There are three methods to install mistral-executor 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 mistral-executor 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-executor using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mistral-executor
Install mistral-executor Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mistral-executor using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mistral-executor
Install mistral-executor 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 mistral-executor using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mistral-executor
How To Uninstall mistral-executor on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mistral-executor package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mistral-executor
Uninstall mistral-executor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mistral-executor and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mistral-executor
Remove mistral-executor Configurations and Data
To remove mistral-executor configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mistral-executor
Remove mistral-executor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mistral-executor configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mistral-executor
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mistral-executor package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
