How To Install python-ironic on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ironic on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-ironic
python-ironic is:
Ironic is an Incubated OpenStack project which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines, forked from the Nova Baremetal driver. It is best thought of as a bare metal hypervisor API and a set of plugins which interact with the bare metal hypervisors. By default, it will use PXE and IPMI in concert to provision and turn on/off machines, but Ironic also supports vendor-specific plugins which may implement additional functionality.
This package contains the Python libraries.
There are three methods to install python-ironic 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-ironic 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-ironic
Install python-ironic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-ironic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-ironic
Install python-ironic 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-ironic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-ironic
How To Uninstall python-ironic on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-ironic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-ironic
Uninstall python-ironic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-ironic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-ironic
Remove python-ironic Configurations and Data
To remove python-ironic configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-ironic
Remove python-ironic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-ironic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-ironic
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ironic package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
