How to Install and Uninstall hiera Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 02,2024

1. Install "hiera" package

Please follow the guidance below to install hiera on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall hiera on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: hiera
Priority: optional
Section: universe/ruby
Installed-Size: 82
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers
Architecture: all
Version: 2.0.0-2
Depends: ruby | ruby-interpreter, ruby-deep-merge, ruby-json
Suggests: mcollective-common, puppet-common
Filename: pool/universe/h/hiera/hiera_2.0.0-2_all.deb
Size: 21634
MD5sum: 6e7b10167f785629b146ebc6d4bb794b
SHA1: 27408e167133493a5ea8977f8d89e12cf7bcc663
SHA256: 0cca61c95b567355a3ef7c33d8138a6bd46b4a092b7a6fd4d60c0b6cde80058f
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
Homepage: https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera/
Ruby-Versions: all
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu