How to Install keepalived software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install keepalived software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

keepalived software package provides Failover and monitoring daemon for LVS clusters, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install keepalived 

keepalived is installed in your system.

Make ensure the keepalived package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep keepalived *

You will get with keepalived package name, version, architecture and description in a table

keepalived package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Administration Utilities
Package keepalived
Version 1:1.2.7-1ubuntu1
Description Failover and monitoring daemon for LVS clusters
Sub Section Admin


See Also, How to uninstall or remove keepalived software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?