How to Install and Uninstall hiera Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 02,2024

1. Install "hiera" package

This tutorial shows how to install hiera on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                hiera
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "hiera" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall hiera on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                hiera
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the hiera package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: hiera
Architecture: all
Version: 3.2.0-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/ruby
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 86
Depends: ruby | ruby-interpreter, ruby-deep-merge, ruby-json
Suggests: mcollective-common, puppet-common
Filename: pool/universe/h/hiera/hiera_3.2.0-2_all.deb
Size: 23184
MD5sum: ca45faf8e71a2af6c82820c272e9e0ae
SHA1: 6ce4195a0c7c955116ccd58635de274feeae178a
SHA256: b4d8519db2ec1abe520ad0041569013803e5d555f2b0c8ffb17e1246cdbabec2
SHA512: c0cab2490475c95dbe32ffbb4a545e8833c6ac1b2d36f44d2ca4a700165c33b064065387e451cd91a4460c7f4f5f9cf44f98ed92b0609b55ebb5b0db1a695898
Homepage: https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera/
Description-en: Light weight hierarchical data store
ruby-hiera is a simple pluggable hierarchical database. It can be
used to store various information and therefore is a good fit for
the representation of infrastructure information.
It can be used to query multiple data backends e.g. YAML or Puppet.
Description-md5: 83651e8019625ca6bf22f64e4095c372
Ruby-Versions: all