How To Install shoelaces 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 shoelaces on Ubuntu.
What is shoelaces
shoelaces is:
Shoelaces provides a mechanism for automating the bootstrapping of servers. It serves iPXE boot scripts, cloud-init configurations and, actually, any kind of plain text files.
Shoelaces main features are:
- automation of the boot script to serve for a given server based on its IP address or DNS PTR record.
- usage of Go templates to serve the configurations, allowing the user to customize them with parameters received via GET request.
- web UI to show the current configurations, and history of servers that booted.
There are three methods to install shoelaces 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 shoelaces Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install shoelaces using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install shoelaces
Install shoelaces Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install shoelaces using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install shoelaces
Install shoelaces 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 shoelaces using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install shoelaces
How To Uninstall shoelaces on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the shoelaces package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove shoelaces
Uninstall shoelaces And Its Dependencies
To uninstall shoelaces and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove shoelaces
Remove shoelaces Configurations and Data
To remove shoelaces configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge shoelaces
Remove shoelaces configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove shoelaces configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shoelaces
Dependencies
shoelaces have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shoelaces package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.