How To Install cloud-initramfs-rooturl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cloud-initramfs-rooturl
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is cloud-initramfs-rooturl
cloud-initramfs-rooturl is:
Allows user to pass in root=http://example.com/your.tar.gz Root filesystem will be tmpfs from that url.
There are three methods to install cloud-initramfs-rooturl
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 cloud-initramfs-rooturl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cloud-initramfs-rooturl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cloud-initramfs-rooturl
Install cloud-initramfs-rooturl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cloud-initramfs-rooturl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cloud-initramfs-rooturl
Install cloud-initramfs-rooturl 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 cloud-initramfs-rooturl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cloud-initramfs-rooturl
How To Uninstall cloud-initramfs-rooturl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the cloud-initramfs-rooturl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cloud-initramfs-rooturl
Uninstall cloud-initramfs-rooturl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cloud-initramfs-rooturl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cloud-initramfs-rooturl
Remove cloud-initramfs-rooturl Configurations and Data
To remove cloud-initramfs-rooturl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cloud-initramfs-rooturl
Remove cloud-initramfs-rooturl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cloud-initramfs-rooturl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cloud-initramfs-rooturl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cloud-initramfs-rooturl
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.