Swift is a distributed, object storage system designed to scale horizontally. It is often used as a backend for cloud-storage systems. This tutorial will guide you through the installation process for Swift on Clear Linux Latest.
Before installing Swift, we need to install the required dependencies, run the following command as root or sudo:
sudo swupd bundle-add devpkg-libffi devpkg-openssl devpkg-python3
Download the Swift package from http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/ or use the following command:
wget https://tarballs.openstack.org/swift/swift-{version}.tar.gz
Replace {version} with the version of the Swift package that you want to install.
Extract the downloaded package using the following command:
tar -xzf swift-{version}.tar.gz
Run the following commands to install Swift:
cd swift-{version}
sudo python3 setup.py install
This will install Swift on your system.
To verify that Swift has been installed properly, run the following command:
swift --version
You should see the version of Swift that you installed printed on the screen.
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Swift on Clear Linux Latest. Swift is an essential component of any cloud-storage platform, and this guide should have given you the confidence to get started with it.
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