Install cloud-utils on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install cloud-utils
Learn how to install cloud-utils with the command sudo apt-get install cloud-utils on Ubuntus.
Quick installation of cloud-utils:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: cloud-utils
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install cloud-utils
Package Details | |
| Package: | cloud-utils |
| Version: | 0.25-0ubuntu5.1 |
| Maintainer: | Scott Moser |
| Home page: | |
| Description: | cloud image management utilities This package provides a useful set of utilities for managing cloud images. . The euca2ools package (a dependency of cloud-utils) provides an Amazon EC2 API compatible set of utilities for bundling kernels, ramdisks, and root filesystems, and uploading them to either EC2 or UEC. . The tasks associated with image bundling are often tedious and repetitive. The cloud-utils package provides several scripts that wrap the complicated tasks with a much simpler interface. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | admin |
How to install cloud-utils on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If cloud-utils is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L cloud-utils' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L cloud-utils Package `cloud-utils' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing cloud-utils:
After system update use the following command to install cloud-utils:
sudo apt-get install cloud-utils
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove cloud-utils from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the cloud-utils from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the cloud-utils following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove cloud-utils
Following command is used to remove the cloud-utils package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove cloud-utils
This will remove cloud-utils and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing cloud-utils with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge cloud-utils
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove cloud-utils
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with cloud-utils package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.