How To Install moosefs-client 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 moosefs-client on Ubuntu.

What is `moosefs-client`

moosefs-client is:

Moosefs FUSE mount utility “mfsmount” and client tools.

MooseFS (MFS) is a fault tolerant, scaling-out, network distributed file system. It spreads data over several physical servers which are visible to the user as one resource. For standard file operations MooseFS mounted with FUSE acts as other Unix-alike file systems:

A hierarchical structure (directory tree).
POSIX file attributes (permissions, last access and modification times).
Special files (block and character devices, pipes and sockets).
Symbolic links and hard links.
Access control based on IP address and/or password.

Distinctive features of MooseFS are:

High availability.
Fault tolerance.
Strong integrity check.
Capacity is dynamically expandable by simply adding new computers/disks.
Deleted files are retained for a configurable period of time (a file system level “trash bin”).
Coherent snapshots of files, even during I/O.

There are three methods to install moosefs-client 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 moosefs-client Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install moosefs-client

Install moosefs-client Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install moosefs-client

Install moosefs-client 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 moosefs-client using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install moosefs-client

How To Uninstall moosefs-client on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the moosefs-client package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove moosefs-client

Uninstall moosefs-client And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove moosefs-client

Remove moosefs-client Configurations and Data

To remove moosefs-client configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge moosefs-client

Remove moosefs-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge moosefs-client

Dependencies

moosefs-client have the following dependencies:

References

moosefs-client website

Summary

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