Install xCAT¶
The xCAT GPG Public Key must be added for apt to verify the xCAT packages
wget -O - "http://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos/apt/apt.key" | apt-key add -
Add the necessary apt-repositories to the management node
# Install the add-apt-repository command
apt-get install software-properties-common
# For x86_64:
add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main"
add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc)-updates main"
add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) universe"
add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc)-updates universe"
# For ppc64el:
add-apt-repository "deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports $(lsb_release -sc) main"
add-apt-repository "deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports $(lsb_release -sc)-updates main"
add-apt-repository "deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports $(lsb_release -sc) universe"
add-apt-repository "deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports $(lsb_release -sc)-updates universe"
Install xCAT [1] with the following command:
apt-get clean all
apt-get update
apt-get install xcat
[1] | Starting with Ubuntu 16.04, the package name ‘xCAT’ is required to be all lowercase |