How To Install pacemaker-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install pacemaker-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. pacemaker-doc is cluster resource manager HTML documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pacemaker-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is pacemaker-doc

pacemaker-doc 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

  • the Pacemaker API documentation generated by Doxygen,
  • the Clusters from Scratch book,
  • the Pacemaker Development book,
  • the Pacemaker Explained book and
  • the Pacemaker Remote book.

There are three methods to install pacemaker-doc 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 pacemaker-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pacemaker-doc

Install pacemaker-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pacemaker-doc

Install pacemaker-doc 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 pacemaker-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pacemaker-doc

How To Uninstall pacemaker-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove pacemaker-doc

Uninstall pacemaker-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pacemaker-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pacemaker-doc

Remove pacemaker-doc Configurations and Data

To remove pacemaker-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pacemaker-doc

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

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

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pacemaker-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.