How To Install tgt 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 tgt on Ubuntu.

What is `tgt`

tgt is:

The Linux target framework (tgt) allows a Linux system to provide SCSI devices (targets) over networked SCSI transports.

tgt consists of a user-space daemon and user-space tools currently supporting the following transports:

iSCSI (SCSI over IP)
iSER (iSCSI over RDMA, using Infiniband)

tgt also supports different storage types for use as backing stores for SCSI Logical Units:

Plain files and block devices
Ceph/RADOS RBD volumes
GlusterFS volumes

This package includes the daemon and user-space tools.

There are three methods to install tgt 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 tgt Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tgt

Install tgt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tgt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tgt

Install tgt 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 tgt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tgt

How To Uninstall tgt on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the tgt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tgt

Uninstall tgt And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tgt

Remove tgt Configurations and Data

To remove tgt configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tgt

Remove tgt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tgt

Dependencies

tgt have the following dependencies:

References

tgt website

Summary

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