How To Install crimson-osd on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crimson-osd on Ubuntu.
What is crimson-osd
crimson-osd is:
Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object, block and file system storage.
Crimson is a re-implementation of the ceph-osd daemon using a more platform aware and scalable software architecture (seastar).
This package contains the Crimson Object Storage Daemon for the Ceph storage system. It is responsible for storing objects on a local file system and providing access to them over the network.
There are three methods to install crimson-osd on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install crimson-osd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install crimson-osd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install crimson-osd
Install crimson-osd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install crimson-osd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install crimson-osd
Install crimson-osd 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 crimson-osd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install crimson-osd
How To Uninstall crimson-osd on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the crimson-osd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove crimson-osd
Uninstall crimson-osd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall crimson-osd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove crimson-osd
Remove crimson-osd Configurations and Data
To remove crimson-osd configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge crimson-osd
Remove crimson-osd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove crimson-osd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crimson-osd
Dependencies
crimson-osd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crimson-osd package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.