How To Install moosefs-common 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-common on Ubuntu.

What is moosefs-common

moosefs-common is:

This is an empty package to facilitate creation of “mfs” user for MooseFS daemons and to own “/etc/mfs” and “/var/lib/mfs” directories.

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-common 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-common 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-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install moosefs-common

Install moosefs-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install moosefs-common

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

sudo aptitude -y install moosefs-common

How To Uninstall moosefs-common on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove moosefs-common

Uninstall moosefs-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove moosefs-common

Remove moosefs-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge moosefs-common

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

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

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

Dependencies

moosefs-common have the following dependencies:

• adduser

References

• moosefs-common website

Summary

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