1.2. Install the OpenStack Command-line Clients

The following table lists the software that you need to have to run the command-line clients, and provides installation instructions as needed.

When following the instructions in this section, replace PROJECT with the lowercase name of the client to install, such as nova. Repeat for each client. The valid values include:

The following example shows the command for installing the nova client with yum.

# yum install python-novaclient

# yum install python-PROJECTclient

To upgrade a client, add the --upgrade option to the yum install command:

# yum install --upgrade python-PROJECTclient

To remove the a client, run the yum erase command:

# yum erase python-PROJECTclient

Before you can run client commands, you must create and source the PROJECT-openrc.sh file to set environment variables. See Section 1.4, “Set Environment Variables Using the OpenStack RC File”.