How To Install python-ironic-inspector-client on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ironic-inspector-client on Debian 10.
What is python-ironic-inspector-client
python-ironic-inspector-client is:
This is an auxiliary service for discovering hardware properties for a node managed by OpenStack Ironic. Hardware introspection or hardware properties discovery is a process of getting hardware parameters required for scheduling from a bare metal node, given it’s power management credentials (e.g. IPMI address, user name and password).
A special discovery ramdisk is required to collect the information on a node. The default one can be built using diskimage-builder and ironic-inspector-ramdisk element.
This package contains the Python 2.7 module.
There are three methods to install python-ironic-inspector-client 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 python-ironic-inspector-client 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-ironic-inspector-client using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-ironic-inspector-client
Install python-ironic-inspector-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-ironic-inspector-client using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-ironic-inspector-client
Install python-ironic-inspector-client 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 python-ironic-inspector-client using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-ironic-inspector-client
How To Uninstall python-ironic-inspector-client on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-ironic-inspector-client package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-ironic-inspector-client
Uninstall python-ironic-inspector-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-ironic-inspector-client and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-ironic-inspector-client
Remove python-ironic-inspector-client Configurations and Data
To remove python-ironic-inspector-client configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-ironic-inspector-client
Remove python-ironic-inspector-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-ironic-inspector-client configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-ironic-inspector-client
Dependencies
python-ironic-inspector-client have the following dependencies:
- python-keystoneauth1
- python-osc-lib
- python-oslo.i18n
- python-oslo.utils
- python-pbr
- python-requests
- python-six
- python
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ironic-inspector-client package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.