How To Install zaqar-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 zaqar-common on Ubuntu.
What is zaqar-common
zaqar-common is:
Zaqar is a multi-tenant cloud messaging service for web developers. It combines the ideas pioneered by Amazon’s SQS product with additional semantics to support event broadcasting.
The service features a fully RESTful API, which developers can use to send messages between various components of their SaaS and mobile applications, by using a variety of communication patterns. Underlying this API is an efficient messaging engine designed with scalability and security in mind.
Other OpenStack components can integrate with Zaqar to surface events to end users and to communicate with guest agents that run in the “over-cloud” layer. Cloud operators can leverage Zaqar to provide equivalents of SQS and SNS to their customers.
This package contains common files and configuration that are needed by all the daemon packages of Zaqar.
There are three methods to install zaqar-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 zaqar-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 zaqar-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install zaqar-common
Install zaqar-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install zaqar-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install zaqar-common
Install zaqar-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 zaqar-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install zaqar-common
How To Uninstall zaqar-common on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the zaqar-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove zaqar-common
Uninstall zaqar-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall zaqar-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove zaqar-common
Remove zaqar-common Configurations and Data
To remove zaqar-common configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge zaqar-common
Remove zaqar-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove zaqar-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zaqar-common
Dependencies
zaqar-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zaqar-common package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.