How To Install python3-ironicclient on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ironicclient
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is python3-ironicclient
python3-ironicclient is:
Ironic provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines. It is a fork of 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 is a client for the OpenStack Ironic API. There’s a Python API (the “ironicclient” module), and a command-line script (“ironic”).
Installing this package gets you a shell command, that you can use to interact with Ironic’s API.
This package provides the Python 3.x support.
There are three methods to install python3-ironicclient
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python3-ironicclient 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-ironicclient
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-ironicclient
Install python3-ironicclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-ironicclient
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-ironicclient
Install python3-ironicclient 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 python3-ironicclient
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-ironicclient
How To Uninstall python3-ironicclient on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the python3-ironicclient
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-ironicclient
Uninstall python3-ironicclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-ironicclient
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-ironicclient
Remove python3-ironicclient Configurations and Data
To remove python3-ironicclient
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-ironicclient
Remove python3-ironicclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-ironicclient
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-ironicclient
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ironicclient
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.