How To Install mcollective 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 mcollective on Ubuntu.
What is mcollective
mcollective is:
The Marionette Collective is a framework for building server orchestration and parallel job execution systems.
This package contains the MCollective daemon.
There are three methods to install mcollective 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 mcollective Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mcollective using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mcollective
Install mcollective Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mcollective using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mcollective
Install mcollective 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 mcollective using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mcollective
How To Uninstall mcollective on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the mcollective package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mcollective
Uninstall mcollective And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mcollective and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mcollective
Remove mcollective Configurations and Data
To remove mcollective configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mcollective
Remove mcollective configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mcollective configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mcollective
Dependencies
mcollective have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mcollective package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.