How To Install mussh on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mussh
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mussh
mussh is:
Mussh is a shell script that allows you to execute a command or script over ssh on multiple hosts with one command. When possible mussh will use ssh-agent and RSA/DSA keys to minimize the need to enter your password more than once.
Unlike clusterssh or mssh, mussh is just a shell script wrapper for ssh with concurrency support. It is intended to make running identical commands or scripts on almost any number of hosts possible with minimal overhead. There is no GUI and the only language used is bash.
There are three methods to install mussh
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 mussh Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mussh
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mussh
Install mussh Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mussh
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mussh
Install mussh 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 mussh
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mussh
How To Uninstall mussh on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mussh
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mussh
Uninstall mussh And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mussh
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mussh
Remove mussh Configurations and Data
To remove mussh
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mussh
Remove mussh configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mussh
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mussh
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mussh
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.