How To Install python-os-client-config on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-os-client-config on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-os-client-config
python-os-client-config is:
Os-client-config is a library for collecting client configuration for using an OpenStack cloud in a consistent and comprehensive manner. It will find cloud config for as few as 1 cloud and as many as you want to put in a config file. It will read environment variables and config files, and it also contains some vendor specific default values so that you don’t have to know extra info to use OpenStack
os-client-config honors all of the normal OS_* variables. It does not provide backwards compatibility to service-specific variables such as NOVA_USERNAME.
If you have environment variables and no config files, os-client-config will produce a cloud config object named “openstack” containing your values from the environment.
This package contains the Python 2.x module.
There are three methods to install python-os-client-config 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-os-client-config 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-os-client-config using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-os-client-config
Install python-os-client-config Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-os-client-config using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-os-client-config
Install python-os-client-config 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-os-client-config using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-os-client-config
How To Uninstall python-os-client-config on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-os-client-config package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-os-client-config
Uninstall python-os-client-config And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-os-client-config and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-os-client-config
Remove python-os-client-config Configurations and Data
To remove python-os-client-config configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-os-client-config
Remove python-os-client-config configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-os-client-config configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-os-client-config
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-os-client-config package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
