How To Install congress-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install congress-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is congress-common
congress-common is:
Congress is an OpenStack project to provide policy as a service across any collection of cloud services in order to offer governance and compliance for dynamic infrastructures.
This package contains common files and configuration that are needed by all the daemon packages of Cinder.
There are three methods to install congress-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 congress-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 congress-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install congress-common
Install congress-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install congress-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install congress-common
Install congress-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 congress-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install congress-common
How To Uninstall congress-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the congress-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove congress-common
Uninstall congress-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall congress-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove congress-common
Remove congress-common Configurations and Data
To remove congress-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge congress-common
Remove congress-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove congress-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge congress-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install congress-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
