How To Install python-keystoneclient on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-keystoneclient on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-keystoneclient
python-keystoneclient is:
This is the identity service used by OpenStack for authentication (authN) and high-level authorization (authZ). It currently supports token-based authN with user/service authZ, and is scalable to support OAuth, SAML, and OpenID in future versions. Out of the box, Keystone uses SQLite for its identity store database, with the option to connect to external LDAP.
This is a client for the OpenStack Keystone API. There’s a Python API (the “keystoneclient” module), and a command-line script (“keystone”).
Installing this package gets you a shell command, that you can use to interact with Keystone’s API. Note that the “keystone” command line is currently deprecated in favor of the “openstack” one available within the “python-openstackclient” package.
This package contains the Python 2.x module.
There are three methods to install python-keystoneclient 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-keystoneclient 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-keystoneclient using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-keystoneclient
Install python-keystoneclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-keystoneclient using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-keystoneclient
Install python-keystoneclient 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-keystoneclient using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-keystoneclient
How To Uninstall python-keystoneclient on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-keystoneclient package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-keystoneclient
Uninstall python-keystoneclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-keystoneclient and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-keystoneclient
Remove python-keystoneclient Configurations and Data
To remove python-keystoneclient configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-keystoneclient
Remove python-keystoneclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-keystoneclient configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-keystoneclient
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-keystoneclient package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
