How To Install pacemaker-cli-utils on Debian 10

Learn how to install pacemaker-cli-utils on Debian 10 with this tutorial. pacemaker-cli-utils is cluster resource manager command line utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pacemaker-cli-utils on Debian 10.

What is pacemaker-cli-utils

pacemaker-cli-utils is:

At its core, Pacemaker is a distributed finite state machine capable of co-ordinating the startup and recovery of inter-related services across a set of machines.

Pacemaker understands many different resource types (OCF, SYSV, systemd) and can accurately model the relationships between them (colocation, ordering).

It can even use technology such as Docker to automatically isolate the resources managed by the cluster.

This package contains those command line utilities of the Pacemaker cluster manager which work on remote nodes as well.

There are three methods to install pacemaker-cli-utils 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 pacemaker-cli-utils Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pacemaker-cli-utils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pacemaker-cli-utils

Install pacemaker-cli-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pacemaker-cli-utils using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pacemaker-cli-utils

Install pacemaker-cli-utils 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 pacemaker-cli-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pacemaker-cli-utils

How To Uninstall pacemaker-cli-utils on Debian 10

To uninstall only the pacemaker-cli-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pacemaker-cli-utils

Uninstall pacemaker-cli-utils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pacemaker-cli-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pacemaker-cli-utils

Remove pacemaker-cli-utils Configurations and Data

To remove pacemaker-cli-utils configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pacemaker-cli-utils

Remove pacemaker-cli-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pacemaker-cli-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pacemaker-cli-utils

Dependencies

pacemaker-cli-utils have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pacemaker-cli-utils package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.