How To Install nova-consoleproxy on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-consoleproxy on Debian 10.
What is nova-consoleproxy
nova-consoleproxy 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 proxy for the console in Nova: either the VNC proxy, the SPICE HTML5 proxy, or the XVP (Xen VNC Proxy) proxy. It is a publically reachable component which proxies access to the console running on compute nodes.
There are three methods to install nova-consoleproxy 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-consoleproxy 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-consoleproxy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nova-consoleproxy
Install nova-consoleproxy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-consoleproxy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nova-consoleproxy
Install nova-consoleproxy 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-consoleproxy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nova-consoleproxy
How To Uninstall nova-consoleproxy on Debian 10
To uninstall only the nova-consoleproxy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nova-consoleproxy
Uninstall nova-consoleproxy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nova-consoleproxy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-consoleproxy
Remove nova-consoleproxy Configurations and Data
To remove nova-consoleproxy configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nova-consoleproxy
Remove nova-consoleproxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nova-consoleproxy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-consoleproxy
Dependencies
nova-consoleproxy have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-consoleproxy package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.