How To Install nfs-ganesha-proxy on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install nfs-ganesha-proxy on Ubuntu 20.04. nfs-ganesha-proxy is nfs-ganesha fsal proxy libraries nfs-ganesha fsal proxy libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nfs-ganesha-proxy on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is nfs-ganesha-proxy

nfs-ganesha-proxy is:

NFS-GANESHA is a NFS Server running in user space with a large cache. It comes with various backend modules to support different file systems and namespaces. Supported name spaces are POSIX, PROXY, SNMP, FUSE-like, HPSS, LUSTRE, XFS and ZFS. This package contains a library for a FSAL_PROXY

Package: nfs-ganesha-proxy Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.0.3-0ubuntu3 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libs Source: nfs-ganesha Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Philippe Deniel [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 171 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libntirpc3.0 (>= 3.0), nfs-ganesha (= 3.0.3-0ubuntu3) Filename: pool/universe/n/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha-proxy_3.0.3-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 45452 MD5sum: 611ac7ec90fdeac721e92b09c632714b SHA1: 739cf6140e3620799ed419f0329a1e6369714c36 SHA256: c73c1c0f89b9c89f9f4068b21880410c228f02c71216ded896a17f84dedddd9e Homepage: https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha Description-en: nfs-ganesha fsal proxy libraries NFS-GANESHA is a NFS Server running in user space with a large cache. It comes with various backend modules to support different file systems and namespaces. Supported name spaces are POSIX, PROXY, SNMP, FUSE-like, HPSS, LUSTRE, XFS and ZFS. This package contains a library for a FSAL_PROXY

There are three methods to install nfs-ganesha-proxy on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install nfs-ganesha-proxy Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install nfs-ganesha-proxy using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nfs-ganesha-proxy

Install nfs-ganesha-proxy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install nfs-ganesha-proxy using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install nfs-ganesha-proxy

Install nfs-ganesha-proxy 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 nfs-ganesha-proxy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nfs-ganesha-proxy

How To Uninstall nfs-ganesha-proxy on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the nfs-ganesha-proxy package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nfs-ganesha-proxy

Uninstall nfs-ganesha-proxy And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nfs-ganesha-proxy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nfs-ganesha-proxy

Remove nfs-ganesha-proxy Configurations and Data

To remove nfs-ganesha-proxy configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nfs-ganesha-proxy

Remove nfs-ganesha-proxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove nfs-ganesha-proxy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nfs-ganesha-proxy

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nfs-ganesha-proxy package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.