How To Install zaqar-server on Debian 10

Learn how to install zaqar-server on Debian 10 with this tutorial. zaqar-server is OpenStack Queueing as a Service - API server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zaqar-server on Debian 10.

What is zaqar-server

zaqar-server is:

Zaqar is a multi-tenant cloud messaging service for web developers. It combines the ideas pioneered by Amazon’s SQS product with additional semantics to support event broadcasting.

The service features a fully RESTful API, which developers can use to send messages between various components of their SaaS and mobile applications, by using a variety of communication patterns. Underlying this API is an efficient messaging engine designed with scalability and security in mind.

Other OpenStack components can integrate with Zaqar to surface events to end users and to communicate with guest agents that run in the “over-cloud” layer. Cloud operators can leverage Zaqar to provide equivalents of SQS and SNS to their customers.

This package contains the API server on which clients will connect.

There are three methods to install zaqar-server on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install zaqar-server Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install zaqar-server

Install zaqar-server Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install zaqar-server

Install zaqar-server 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install zaqar-server using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install zaqar-server

How To Uninstall zaqar-server on Debian 10

To uninstall only the zaqar-server package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove zaqar-server

Uninstall zaqar-server And Its Dependencies

To uninstall zaqar-server and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove zaqar-server

Remove zaqar-server Configurations and Data

To remove zaqar-server configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge zaqar-server

Remove zaqar-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zaqar-server

Dependencies

zaqar-server have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install zaqar-server package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.