How To Install openafs-fileserver on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openafs-fileserver
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is openafs-fileserver
openafs-fileserver is:
AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers. Facilities are provided for access control, authentication, backup and administrative management.
This package provides the AFS fileserver binaries. It should be installed on any machine that will export files into AFS.
Package: openafs-fileserver Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.8.4~pre1-1ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: openafs Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Benjamin Kaduk [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 7974 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.16), libhcrypto4-heimdal (>= 1.4.0+git20110226), libroken18-heimdal (>= 1.7~git20150920), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), openafs-client, openafs-krb5 (>= 1.8.0~pre1-1) Recommends: ntp | time-daemon Suggests: openafs-doc Filename: pool/universe/o/openafs/openafs-fileserver_1.8.4~pre1-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 1325996 MD5sum: 3ec912969fd57ca549130e2b84b0ce40 SHA1: 473507348f5f8b86edd57486385f85229fb62375 SHA256: 7a48488ca67250af077518d98b865b8591f9f08b21044a11c6e5f4f9ca6a3f9b Homepage: http://www.openafs.org/ Description-en: AFS distributed filesystem file server AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers. Facilities are provided for access control, authentication, backup and administrative management.
This package provides the AFS fileserver binaries. It should be installed on any machine that will export files into AFS.
There are three methods to install openafs-fileserver
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 openafs-fileserver Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openafs-fileserver
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openafs-fileserver
Install openafs-fileserver Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openafs-fileserver
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openafs-fileserver
Install openafs-fileserver 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 openafs-fileserver
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openafs-fileserver
How To Uninstall openafs-fileserver on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the openafs-fileserver
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openafs-fileserver
Uninstall openafs-fileserver And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openafs-fileserver
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openafs-fileserver
Remove openafs-fileserver Configurations and Data
To remove openafs-fileserver
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openafs-fileserver
Remove openafs-fileserver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openafs-fileserver
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openafs-fileserver
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openafs-fileserver
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.