How To Install thin-provisioning-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thin-provisioning-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is thin-provisioning-tools
thin-provisioning-tools is:
This package contains tools to handle meta-data from the device-mapper thin target. This target allows the use of a single backing store for multple thinly provisioned volumes. Numerous snapshots can be taken from such volumes. The tools can check the meta-data for consistency, repair damaged information and dump or restore the meta-data in textual form.
There are three methods to install thin-provisioning-tools 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 thin-provisioning-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install thin-provisioning-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install thin-provisioning-tools
Install thin-provisioning-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install thin-provisioning-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install thin-provisioning-tools
Install thin-provisioning-tools 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 thin-provisioning-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install thin-provisioning-tools
How To Uninstall thin-provisioning-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the thin-provisioning-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove thin-provisioning-tools
Uninstall thin-provisioning-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall thin-provisioning-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove thin-provisioning-tools
Remove thin-provisioning-tools Configurations and Data
To remove thin-provisioning-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge thin-provisioning-tools
Remove thin-provisioning-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove thin-provisioning-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge thin-provisioning-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install thin-provisioning-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
