How To Install ovirt-guest-agent on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ovirt-guest-agent
on Debian 9.
What is ovirt-guest-agent
ovirt-guest-agent is:
This is the oVirt management agent running inside the guest. The agent interfaces with the oVirt manager, supplying heart-beat info as well as run-time data from within the guest itself. The agent also accepts control commands to be run executed within the OS (like: shutdown and restart).
There are three methods to install ovirt-guest-agent
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ovirt-guest-agent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ovirt-guest-agent
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ovirt-guest-agent
Install ovirt-guest-agent Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ovirt-guest-agent
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ovirt-guest-agent
Install ovirt-guest-agent 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 ovirt-guest-agent
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ovirt-guest-agent
How To Uninstall ovirt-guest-agent on Debian 9
To uninstall only the ovirt-guest-agent
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ovirt-guest-agent
Uninstall ovirt-guest-agent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ovirt-guest-agent
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ovirt-guest-agent
Remove ovirt-guest-agent Configurations and Data
To remove ovirt-guest-agent
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ovirt-guest-agent
Remove ovirt-guest-agent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ovirt-guest-agent
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ovirt-guest-agent
Dependencies
ovirt-guest-agent have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ovirt-guest-agent
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.