How To Install opengcs on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install opengcs
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is opengcs
opengcs is:
Open Guest Compute Service is a Linux-based open source project to further the development of a production quality implementation of Linux Hyper-V container on Microsoft Windows (LCOW). It’s designed to run inside a custom Linux OS for supporting Linux container payload.
There are three methods to install opengcs
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install opengcs Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install opengcs
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install opengcs
Install opengcs Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install opengcs
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install opengcs
Install opengcs 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 opengcs
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install opengcs
How To Uninstall opengcs on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the opengcs
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove opengcs
Uninstall opengcs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall opengcs
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove opengcs
Remove opengcs Configurations and Data
To remove opengcs
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge opengcs
Remove opengcs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove opengcs
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opengcs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install opengcs
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.