How To Install swauth on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swauth on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is swauth
swauth is:
Swauth is an auth service for Swift as WSGI Middleware that uses Swift itself as a backing store. It’s alternative to Keystone.
This package provides the Python libraries that actually implement everything.
There are three methods to install swauth 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 swauth Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swauth using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swauth
Install swauth Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swauth using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swauth
Install swauth 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 swauth using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swauth
How To Uninstall swauth on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the swauth package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swauth
Uninstall swauth And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swauth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swauth
Remove swauth Configurations and Data
To remove swauth configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swauth
Remove swauth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swauth configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swauth
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swauth package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
