How To Install ceilometer-agent-compute on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-agent-compute on Debian 9.
What is ceilometer-agent-compute
ceilometer-agent-compute is:
Ceilometer aims to deliver a Single Point Of Contact for billing systems, providing all the counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack components. The delivery of counters must be traceable and auditable, the counters must be easily extensible to support new projects, and agents doing data collections should be independent of the overall system.
(A ceilometer is an instrument that measures cloud coverage.)
This package contains the compute agent.
There are three methods to install ceilometer-agent-compute on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ceilometer-agent-compute Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-agent-compute using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ceilometer-agent-compute
Install ceilometer-agent-compute Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-agent-compute using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ceilometer-agent-compute
Install ceilometer-agent-compute Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-agent-compute using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-agent-compute
How To Uninstall ceilometer-agent-compute on Debian 9
To uninstall only the ceilometer-agent-compute package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-agent-compute
Uninstall ceilometer-agent-compute And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ceilometer-agent-compute and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-agent-compute
Remove ceilometer-agent-compute Configurations and Data
To remove ceilometer-agent-compute configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-agent-compute
Remove ceilometer-agent-compute configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ceilometer-agent-compute configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ceilometer-agent-compute
Dependencies
ceilometer-agent-compute have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-agent-compute package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.