Add/Remove Platform9 CLI

Management of the Platform9 CLI

This page provides instructions to install, update and uninstall the Platform9 CLI

• Installation
• Upgrade
• Uninstall

Pre-requisites

The CLI currently supports

• Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.04 / 20.04
• CentOS 7.x / 8.3
• RHEL 7.x

Installation

From the command line of your machine, run the following commands to download the CLI installer and run it to install the CLI.

bash <(curl -sL https://pmkft-assets.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/pf9ctl_setup)

This will download a script named cli_setup.sh and invoke the script.

Once the CLI is successfully installed, you can proceed to configuring the CLI.

Upgrade

To upgrade the CLI to the latest version, simply run the cli-setup.sh script again.

bash ./cli_setup.sh

It will update the installed packages if new versions are available in the upstream repository. NOTE - You will need to specify your PMK account credentials again.

Uninstall

To uninstall the CLI you need to remove the installation directories by running:

rm -rf ~/pf9 - Will remove all PMK package installations, including logs/db/binary

rm -rf /usr/bin/pf9ctl- Will remove the pf9ctl soft link

rm -rf ~/pf9 

rm -rf /usr/bin/pf9ctl