How To Install glance on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glance on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is glance
glance is:
The Glance project provides an image registration and discovery service and an image delivery service. These services are used in conjunction by Nova to deliver images from object stores, such as OpenStack’s Swift service, to Nova’s compute nodes.
This package is a metapackage for all glance daemons.
There are three methods to install glance on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install glance Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glance using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glance
Install glance Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glance using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glance
Install glance 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 glance using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glance
How To Uninstall glance on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the glance package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glance
Uninstall glance And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glance and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glance
Remove glance Configurations and Data
To remove glance configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glance
Remove glance configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glance configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glance
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glance package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
