How To Install python3-ironic-inspector on Debian 12

Learn how to install python3-ironic-inspector on Debian 12 with this tutorial. python3-ironic-inspector is discovering hardware properties for OpenStack Ironic - Python 2.7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ironic-inspector on Debian 12.

What is `python3-ironic-inspector`

python3-ironic-inspector 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 files.

There are three methods to install python3-ironic-inspector on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python3-ironic-inspector Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-ironic-inspector using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-ironic-inspector

Install python3-ironic-inspector Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-ironic-inspector using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-ironic-inspector

Install python3-ironic-inspector 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 python3-ironic-inspector using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-ironic-inspector

How To Uninstall python3-ironic-inspector on Debian 12

To uninstall only the python3-ironic-inspector package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-ironic-inspector

Uninstall python3-ironic-inspector And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-ironic-inspector and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-ironic-inspector

Remove python3-ironic-inspector Configurations and Data

To remove python3-ironic-inspector configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-ironic-inspector

Remove python3-ironic-inspector configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-ironic-inspector configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-ironic-inspector

Dependencies

python3-ironic-inspector have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ironic-inspector package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.