How To Install cephfs-shell on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cephfs-shell on Ubuntu 22.04. cephfs-shell is interactive shell for the Ceph distributed file system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cephfs-shell on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is cephfs-shell

cephfs-shell is:

Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object, block and file system storage. This is an interactive tool that allows accessing a Ceph file system without mounting it by providing a nice pseudo-shell which works like an FTP client.

This package contains a CLI for interacting with the CephFS.

There are three methods to install cephfs-shell 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 cephfs-shell Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cephfs-shell

Install cephfs-shell Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cephfs-shell

Install cephfs-shell 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 cephfs-shell using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cephfs-shell

How To Uninstall cephfs-shell on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the cephfs-shell package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cephfs-shell

Uninstall cephfs-shell And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cephfs-shell

Remove cephfs-shell Configurations and Data

To remove cephfs-shell configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cephfs-shell

Remove cephfs-shell configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cephfs-shell

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Summary

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