How To Install python-congressclient on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-congressclient on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-congressclient
python-congressclient is:
Congress is an open policy framework for the cloud. With Congress, a cloud operator can declare, monitor, enforce, and audit “policy” in a heterogeneous cloud environment. Congress get inputs from a cloud’s various cloud services; for example in Openstack, Congress fetches information about VMs from Nova, and network state from Neutron, etc. Congress then feeds input data from those services into its policy engine where Congress verifies that the cloud’s actual state abides by the cloud operator’s policies. Congress is designed to work with any policy and any cloud service.
This package provides a cli and a Python 2.x client module.
There are three methods to install python-congressclient 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 python-congressclient Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-congressclient using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-congressclient
Install python-congressclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-congressclient using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-congressclient
Install python-congressclient 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 python-congressclient using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-congressclient
How To Uninstall python-congressclient on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-congressclient package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-congressclient
Uninstall python-congressclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-congressclient and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-congressclient
Remove python-congressclient Configurations and Data
To remove python-congressclient configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-congressclient
Remove python-congressclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-congressclient configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-congressclient
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-congressclient package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
