Ubuntu

The Ubuntu SAL helps to manage packages and services in Ubuntu > 14.

You can access as follows:

j.sal.ubuntu

Service Management

• You can control the installation/removal of services via service_install and service_remove
• You can control if it's enabled/disabled at boot with service_enable_start_boot and service_disable_start_boot

  service_install(servicename, daemonpath, args='', respawn=True, pwd=None,env=None,reload=True)
  service_uninstall(servicename)
  service_enable_start_boot(servicename)
  service_disable_start_boot(servicename)

• You can control the service life cycle (Start, Stop, Restart, Status) via service_start, service_stop, service_restart and service_status

  service_start(servicename)
  service_stop(servicename)
  service_restart(servicename)
  service_status(servicename)

Package management

j.sal.ubuntu helps with package management:

• apt_install to install a new package
• apt_install_version to install a specific version of a package
• pkg_remove to remove a certain package
• pkg_list to list all files of a package
• get_installed_package_names to get a list of installed packages
• is_pkg_installed to find if a certain package is already installed on the system
• apt_update to update your packages list
• apt_upgrade to upgrade your packages

Other helpers

• sshkeys_generate generates SSH-keys

  sshkeys_generate(passphrase='', type="rsa", overwrite=False, path="/root/.ssh/id_rsa"):

• checkroot asserts the current user is root
• whoami prints effective usernames
• version_get returns a tuple of CODENAME, Description, ID and RELEASE

  j.sal.ubuntu.version_get()
  ('xenial', 'Ubuntu 16.04 LTS', 'ubuntu', '16.04')