How To Install pacemaker-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pacemaker-common on Kali Linux.

What is pacemaker-common

pacemaker-common 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 common infrastructure and data files for the Pacemaker daemons and utilities.

There are three methods to install pacemaker-common on Kali Linux. 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-common 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-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pacemaker-common

Install pacemaker-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pacemaker-common

Install pacemaker-common Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install pacemaker-common

How To Uninstall pacemaker-common on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove pacemaker-common

Uninstall pacemaker-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pacemaker-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pacemaker-common

Remove pacemaker-common Configurations and Data

To remove pacemaker-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pacemaker-common

Remove pacemaker-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pacemaker-common

Dependencies

pacemaker-common have the following dependencies:

• adduser

References

• pacemaker-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pacemaker-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.