How To Install nova-common on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-common on Debian 10.
What is nova-common
nova-common 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 contains elements that are needed by all parts of Nova.
There are three methods to install nova-common on Debian 10. 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-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 nova-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nova-common
Install nova-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nova-common
Install nova-common 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nova-common
How To Uninstall nova-common on Debian 10
To uninstall only the nova-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nova-common
Uninstall nova-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nova-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-common
Remove nova-common Configurations and Data
To remove nova-common configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nova-common
Remove nova-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nova-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-common
Dependencies
nova-common have the following dependencies:
- adduser
- bridge-utils
- dbconfig-common
- iproute2
- python3-amqplib
- python3-configobj
- python3-iso8601
- python3-nova
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-common package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.