Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install placement-api
on Kali Linux.
What is placement-api
placement-api is:
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 the Placement API server.
There are three methods to install placement-api
on Kali Linux. 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-api 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-api
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install placement-api
Install placement-api Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install placement-api
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install placement-api
Install placement-api Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install placement-api
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install placement-api
How To Uninstall placement-api on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the placement-api
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove placement-api
Uninstall placement-api And Its Dependencies
To uninstall placement-api
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove placement-api
Remove placement-api Configurations and Data
To remove placement-api
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge placement-api
Remove placement-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove placement-api
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge placement-api
Dependencies
placement-api have the following dependencies:
- adduser
- debconf
- placement-common
- python3-keystoneclient
- python3-openstackclient
- python3-pastescript
- q-text-as-data
- uwsgi-plugin-python3
- debconf
- lsb-base
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install placement-api
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.