How To Install python3-keystoneclient on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-keystoneclient on Kali Linux. python3-keystoneclient is client library for the OpenStack Keystone API - Python 3.x

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-keystoneclient on Kali Linux.

What is python3-keystoneclient

python3-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 “python3-openstackclient” package.

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

There are three methods to install python3-keystoneclient on Kali Linux. 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-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 python3-keystoneclient using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-keystoneclient

Install python3-keystoneclient Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-keystoneclient

Install python3-keystoneclient Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-keystoneclient

How To Uninstall python3-keystoneclient on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-keystoneclient

Uninstall python3-keystoneclient And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-keystoneclient and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-keystoneclient

Remove python3-keystoneclient Configurations and Data

To remove python3-keystoneclient configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-keystoneclient

Remove python3-keystoneclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-keystoneclient

Dependencies

python3-keystoneclient have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-keystoneclient package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.