Install Client Ceph Packages

Introduction

To interact with a Ceph cluster from client machines, it is necessary to install the appropriate Ceph client packages. This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installing the ceph-common package on Ubuntu and Fedora systems. If your Linux distribution does not include the ceph-common package, additional steps are provided to manually add the RPM package repository.

Install Ceph-Common

In Ubuntu

$ apt install -y ceph-common

In Fedora

$ dnf install -y ceph-common

RPM Package

If your Linux distribution cannot locate the ceph-common package, you may need to add the RPM manually.

1. Create ceph.repo under /etc/yum.repos.d
2. Add the following content
   ceph.repo

   [ceph]
    name=Ceph packages for $basearch
    baseurl=https://download.ceph.com/rpm-quincy/el8/$basearch
    enabled=1
    priority=2
    gpgcheck=1
    gpgkey=https://download.ceph.com/keys/release.asc
3. Run apt/dnf install again