Installed packages

On Debian and Ubuntu systems, we can leverage the advanced package tool by running the apt command. This tool can be used to provide insight into which packages are installed on our system. This knowledge can be useful when troubleshooting OpenStack problems related to packages:

apt search openstack | less

The preceding command will list the packages that have the word openstack in their description and paginate the output. Running this command will give you a sense of some of the packages that come together to create an OpenStack cloud. Not all the packages listed are required, but this will give you an idea of which packages are available:

apt list | grep nova

The preceding apt list command will list the packages on the system. ...

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