How To Install nova-console on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-console
on Debian 10.
What is nova-console
nova-console 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 console server. This enables the use of consoles with XVP and XenServer. It is a publicly reachable component which proxies access to VNCs running on compute nodes.
There are three methods to install nova-console
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-console 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-console
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nova-console
Install nova-console Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-console
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nova-console
Install nova-console 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-console
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nova-console
How To Uninstall nova-console on Debian 10
To uninstall only the nova-console
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nova-console
Uninstall nova-console And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nova-console
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-console
Remove nova-console Configurations and Data
To remove nova-console
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nova-console
Remove nova-console configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nova-console
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-console
Dependencies
nova-console have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-console
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.