How To Install nova-novncproxy on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-novncproxy
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nova-novncproxy
nova-novncproxy 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. In addition to its “native” API (the OpenStack API), it also supports the Amazon EC2 API.
Nova is intended to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. It supports many different hypervisors (KVM and Xen to name a few), different database backends (SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, for instance), different types of user databases (LDAP or SQL), etc.
This package provides the VNC proxy. It is a publically reachable component which proxies access to VNCs running on compute nodes.
Package: nova-novncproxy Architecture: all Version: 2:21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2 Priority: extra Section: universe/net Source: nova Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Openstack Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 60 Depends: novnc, python3-nova (= 2:21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2) Filename: pool/universe/n/nova/nova-novncproxy_21.0.0~b3~git2020041013.57ff308d6d-0ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 6544 MD5sum: ab2c5d6cbae290c9950690e3bd4bda70 SHA1: eb0029038a27efdb304fd240d33e4ec9a42c0206 SHA256: 3086f873b277d054f6b7f0e6e9b7ece6d69bcaab0e6716f1ea679a328e49e0ea Homepage: https://launchpad.net/nova Description-en: OpenStack Compute - NoVNC proxy 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. In addition to its “native” API (the OpenStack API), it also supports the Amazon EC2 API.
Nova is intended to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. It supports many different hypervisors (KVM and Xen to name a few), different database backends (SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, for instance), different types of user databases (LDAP or SQL), etc.
This package provides the VNC proxy. It is a publically reachable component which proxies access to VNCs running on compute nodes.
There are three methods to install nova-novncproxy
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 nova-novncproxy 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-novncproxy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nova-novncproxy
Install nova-novncproxy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nova-novncproxy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nova-novncproxy
Install nova-novncproxy 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 nova-novncproxy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nova-novncproxy
How To Uninstall nova-novncproxy on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nova-novncproxy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nova-novncproxy
Uninstall nova-novncproxy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nova-novncproxy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nova-novncproxy
Remove nova-novncproxy Configurations and Data
To remove nova-novncproxy
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nova-novncproxy
Remove nova-novncproxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nova-novncproxy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nova-novncproxy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nova-novncproxy
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.