How To Install nova-api on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-api on Kali Linux. nova-api is OpenStack Compute - compute API frontend

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-api on Kali Linux.

What is nova-api

nova-api is:

OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.

OpenStack Compute, codenamed Nova, is a cloud computing fabric controller designed to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. In addition to its “native” OpenStack API, it also supports the Amazon EC2 API, and it supports many different database backends (including SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL), hypervisors (KVM, Xen), and user directory systems (LDAP, SQL).

This package provides the API frontend.

There are three methods to install nova-api 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 nova-api Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install nova-api using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nova-api

Install nova-api Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nova-api

Install nova-api 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 nova-api using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nova-api

How To Uninstall nova-api on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the nova-api package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nova-api

Uninstall nova-api And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-api

Remove nova-api Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge nova-api

Remove nova-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-api

Dependencies

nova-api have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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