How To Install barman-cli-cloud on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install barman-cli-cloud on Ubuntu 22.04. barman-cli-cloud is Cloud client utilities for the integration of Barman in PostgreSQL clusters

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install barman-cli-cloud on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is barman-cli-cloud

barman-cli-cloud is:

Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open-source administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python.

It allows your organization to perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments to reduce risk and help DBAs during the recovery phase.

The barman-cli-cloud package contains cloud client utilities for the integration of Barman in PostgreSQL clusters.

Barman is distributed under GNU GPL 3 and maintained by 2ndQuadrant.

There are three methods to install barman-cli-cloud 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 barman-cli-cloud Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install barman-cli-cloud

Install barman-cli-cloud Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install barman-cli-cloud using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install barman-cli-cloud

Install barman-cli-cloud 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 barman-cli-cloud using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install barman-cli-cloud

How To Uninstall barman-cli-cloud on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the barman-cli-cloud package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove barman-cli-cloud

Uninstall barman-cli-cloud And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove barman-cli-cloud

Remove barman-cli-cloud Configurations and Data

To remove barman-cli-cloud configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge barman-cli-cloud

Remove barman-cli-cloud configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove barman-cli-cloud configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge barman-cli-cloud

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Summary

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