How To Install salt-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install salt-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is salt-common
salt-common is:
salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer servers in a fast and efficient way.
It allows commands to be executed across large groups of servers. This means systems can be easily managed, but data can also be easily gathered. Quick introspection into running systems becomes a reality.
Remote execution is usually used to set up a certain state on a remote system. Salt addresses this problem as well, the salt state system uses salt state files to define the state a server needs to be in.
Between the remote execution system, and state management Salt addresses the backbone of cloud and data center management.
This particular package provides shared libraries that salt-master, salt-minion, and salt-syndic require to function.
There are three methods to install salt-common 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 salt-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install salt-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install salt-common
Install salt-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install salt-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install salt-common
Install salt-common 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 salt-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install salt-common
How To Uninstall salt-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the salt-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove salt-common
Uninstall salt-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall salt-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove salt-common
Remove salt-common Configurations and Data
To remove salt-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge salt-common
Remove salt-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove salt-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge salt-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install salt-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
