How To Install pacemaker on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pacemaker on Kali Linux.
What is pacemaker
pacemaker 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 daemons directly interacting with the cluster stack.
There are three methods to install pacemaker 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 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install pacemaker using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pacemakerInstall pacemaker Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install pacemaker using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pacemakerInstall pacemaker 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install pacemaker using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pacemakerHow To Uninstall pacemaker on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the pacemaker package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pacemakerUninstall pacemaker And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pacemaker and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pacemakerRemove pacemaker Configurations and Data
To remove pacemaker configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pacemakerRemove pacemaker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pacemaker configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pacemakerDependencies
pacemaker have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pacemaker package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
