How To Install rhc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rhc
on Debian 9.
What is rhc
rhc is:
OpenShift is a cloud computing platform as a service (PaaS) product from Red Hat.
rhc is a command-line client for OpenShift that allows you to remotely manage your OpenShift application.
There are three methods to install rhc
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rhc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rhc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rhc
Install rhc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rhc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rhc
Install rhc 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 rhc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rhc
How To Uninstall rhc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the rhc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rhc
Uninstall rhc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rhc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rhc
Remove rhc Configurations and Data
To remove rhc
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rhc
Remove rhc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rhc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rhc
Dependencies
rhc have the following dependencies:
- ruby
- ruby-archive-tar-minitar
- ruby-commander
- ruby-highline
- ruby-httpclient
- ruby-net-scp
- ruby-net-ssh
- ruby-net-ssh-multi
- ruby-open4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rhc
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.