How To Install safelease on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install safelease on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is safelease
safelease is:
Safelease is a legacy cluster lock utility used by Vdsm. It is based on the algorithm presented in the article “Light-Weight Leases for Storage-Centric Coordination” by G Chockler and D Malkhi.
There are three methods to install safelease 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 safelease Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install safelease using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install safelease
Install safelease Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install safelease using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install safelease
Install safelease 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 safelease using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install safelease
How To Uninstall safelease on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the safelease package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove safelease
Uninstall safelease And Its Dependencies
To uninstall safelease and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove safelease
Remove safelease Configurations and Data
To remove safelease configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge safelease
Remove safelease configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove safelease configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge safelease
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install safelease package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
