How To Install opengcs on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install opengcs on Ubuntu 22.04. opengcs is Guest Compute Service for Linux Hyper-V Container

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install opengcs on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is opengcs

opengcs is:

Open Guest Compute Service is a Linux-based open source project to further the development of a production quality implementation of Linux Hyper-V container on Microsoft Windows (LCOW). It’s designed to run inside a custom Linux OS for supporting Linux container payload.

There are three methods to install opengcs 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 opengcs Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install opengcs

Install opengcs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install opengcs using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install opengcs

Install opengcs 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 opengcs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install opengcs

How To Uninstall opengcs on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the opengcs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove opengcs

Uninstall opengcs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall opengcs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove opengcs

Remove opengcs Configurations and Data

To remove opengcs configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge opengcs

Remove opengcs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove opengcs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opengcs

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install opengcs package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.