How To Install mysql-router on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mysql-router
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mysql-router
mysql-router is:
MySQL Router is part of InnoDB cluster, and is lightweight middleware that provides transparent routing between your application and back-end MySQL servers. It can be used for a wide variety of use cases, such as providing high availability and scalability by effectively routing database traffic to appropriate back-end MySQL servers. The pluggable architecture also enables developers to extend MySQL Router for custom use cases.
Since MySQL Router is clustering software and needs to be configured and managed across an entire cluster, packaging cannot manage it for you. This package supplies the binary build only, ready for manual configuration.
Package: mysql-router Architecture: amd64 Version: 8.0.19-0ubuntu5 Priority: optional Section: universe/database Source: mysql-8.0 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian MySQL Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 12463 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libevent-core-2.1-7 (>= 2.1.8-stable), libevent-extra-2.1-7 (>= 2.1.8-stable), libevent-openssl-2.1-7 (>= 2.1.8-stable), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), liblz4-1 (>= 0.0~r127), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 9), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Filename: pool/universe/m/mysql-8.0/mysql-router_8.0.19-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb Size: 2499180 MD5sum: a48b5ca3e63d1a2094209d98eec867d7 SHA1: ea6d3aaaaa499660385be7902bdfa0f8c6e7e197 SHA256: feaf43fbc6a3ca260b17be7fb5d2c94da5968fc83cfc5859e4322cc8a0cf068c Homepage: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-router/8.0/en/ Description-en: route connections from MySQL clients to MySQL servers MySQL Router is part of InnoDB cluster, and is lightweight middleware that provides transparent routing between your application and back-end MySQL servers. It can be used for a wide variety of use cases, such as providing high availability and scalability by effectively routing database traffic to appropriate back-end MySQL servers. The pluggable architecture also enables developers to extend MySQL Router for custom use cases.
Since MySQL Router is clustering software and needs to be configured and managed across an entire cluster, packaging cannot manage it for you. This package supplies the binary build only, ready for manual configuration.
There are three methods to install mysql-router
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 mysql-router Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mysql-router
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mysql-router
Install mysql-router Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mysql-router
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mysql-router
Install mysql-router 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 mysql-router
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mysql-router
How To Uninstall mysql-router on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mysql-router
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mysql-router
Uninstall mysql-router And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mysql-router
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mysql-router
Remove mysql-router Configurations and Data
To remove mysql-router
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mysql-router
Remove mysql-router configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mysql-router
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mysql-router
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mysql-router
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.