How To Install cricket on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cricket on Debian 9.
What is cricket
cricket is:
This is Cricket. It is a configuration, polling, and data-display engine wrapped around the RRD tool by Tobias Oetiker. There are three user-visible pieces to Cricket: the collector, the grapher, and the config tree. The collector runs from cron and fetches data from a number of devices according to the info it finds in the config tree. The grapher is a CGI application that allows users to traverse the config tree from a web browser and see the data that the collector recorded.
There are three methods to install cricket 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 cricket Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cricket using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cricket
Install cricket Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cricket using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cricket
Install cricket 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 cricket using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cricket
How To Uninstall cricket on Debian 9
To uninstall only the cricket package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cricket
Uninstall cricket And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cricket and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cricket
Remove cricket Configurations and Data
To remove cricket configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cricket
Remove cricket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cricket configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cricket
Dependencies
cricket have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cricket package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
