How To Install placement-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 placement-common on Ubuntu.
What is placement-common
placement-common is:
OpenStack is a reliable cloud infrastructure. Its mission is to produce the ubiquitous cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.
OpenStack Placement provides an HTTP service for managing, selecting, and claiming providers of classes of inventory representing available resources in a cloud.
This package contains common files.
There are three methods to install placement-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 placement-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 placement-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install placement-common
Install placement-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install placement-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install placement-common
Install placement-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 placement-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install placement-common
How To Uninstall placement-common on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the placement-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove placement-common
Uninstall placement-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall placement-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove placement-common
Remove placement-common Configurations and Data
To remove placement-common configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge placement-common
Remove placement-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove placement-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge placement-common
Dependencies
placement-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install placement-common package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.