How To Install packer on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install packer
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is packer
packer is:
Packer is an open source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer does not replace configuration management like Chef or Puppet. In fact, when building images, Packer is able to use tools like Chef or Puppet to install software onto the image.
A machine image is a single static unit that contains a pre-configured operating system and installed software which is used to quickly create new running machines. Machine image formats change for each platform. Some examples include AMIs for EC2, VMDK/VMX files for VMware, OVF exports for VirtualBox, etc.
For the documentation of Packer, please see https://www.packer.io/docs.
There are three methods to install packer
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 packer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install packer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install packer
Install packer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install packer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install packer
Install packer 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 packer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install packer
How To Uninstall packer on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the packer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove packer
Uninstall packer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall packer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove packer
Remove packer Configurations and Data
To remove packer
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge packer
Remove packer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove packer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge packer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install packer
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.