How To Install sahara on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install sahara on Ubuntu 18.04. sahara is OpenStack data processing cluster as a service - API & Engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sahara on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is sahara

sahara is:

The Sahara project provides a simple means to provision a data-intensive application cluster (Hadoop or Spark) on top of OpenStack. It’s the ex Savanna project, renamed due to potential trademark issues.

This metapackage depends on the API server and the engine daemon.

There are three methods to install sahara 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 sahara Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sahara

Install sahara Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install sahara using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sahara

Install sahara 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 sahara using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sahara

How To Uninstall sahara on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the sahara package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sahara

Uninstall sahara And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sahara and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sahara

Remove sahara Configurations and Data

To remove sahara configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sahara

Remove sahara configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sahara

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sahara package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.