How To Install tarantool 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 tarantool on Ubuntu.
What is tarantool
tarantool is:
Tarantool is an in-memory database and a Lua application server. Its key properties include:
- flexible data model
- multiple index types: HASH, TREE, BITSET
- optional persistence and strong data durability
- log streaming replication
- Lua functions, procedures, triggers, with rich access to database API, JSON support, inter-procedure and network communication libraries
This package provides Tarantool command line interpreter and server.
There are three methods to install tarantool 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 tarantool Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tarantool using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tarantool
Install tarantool Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tarantool using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tarantool
Install tarantool 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 tarantool using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tarantool
How To Uninstall tarantool on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the tarantool package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tarantool
Uninstall tarantool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tarantool and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tarantool
Remove tarantool Configurations and Data
To remove tarantool configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tarantool
Remove tarantool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tarantool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tarantool
Dependencies
tarantool have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tarantool package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.