How To Install ganglia-modules-linux on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-modules-linux
on Kali Linux.
What is ganglia-modules-linux
ganglia-modules-linux is:
Ganglia’s core modules provide essential metrics like RAM and CPU load and most of them are implemented for any platform where Ganglia runs. The ganglia-modules-linux project is not constrained by the requirements to support all the Ganglia platforms: these modules are implemented exclusively for Linux users. The implementations are high-performance C code. The exact modules currently included are IO statistics (similar to the statistics from iostat), individual filesystem capacity statistics and per-core CPU metrics.
There are three methods to install ganglia-modules-linux
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ganglia-modules-linux Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ganglia-modules-linux
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ganglia-modules-linux
Install ganglia-modules-linux Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ganglia-modules-linux
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ganglia-modules-linux
Install ganglia-modules-linux Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ganglia-modules-linux
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ganglia-modules-linux
How To Uninstall ganglia-modules-linux on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ganglia-modules-linux
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ganglia-modules-linux
Uninstall ganglia-modules-linux And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ganglia-modules-linux
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ganglia-modules-linux
Remove ganglia-modules-linux Configurations and Data
To remove ganglia-modules-linux
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ganglia-modules-linux
Remove ganglia-modules-linux configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ganglia-modules-linux
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ganglia-modules-linux
Dependencies
ganglia-modules-linux have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-modules-linux
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.