How To Install graphite-carbon on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install graphite-carbon on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is graphite-carbon
graphite-carbon is:
Graphite is a web application using the Twisted framework to provide real-time visualization and storage of numeric time-series data.
The Carbon daemon processes the incoming time-series data and saves it as Whisper database files.
There are three methods to install graphite-carbon on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install graphite-carbon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install graphite-carbon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install graphite-carbon
Install graphite-carbon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install graphite-carbon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install graphite-carbon
Install graphite-carbon 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install graphite-carbon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install graphite-carbon
How To Uninstall graphite-carbon on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the graphite-carbon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove graphite-carbon
Uninstall graphite-carbon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall graphite-carbon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove graphite-carbon
Remove graphite-carbon Configurations and Data
To remove graphite-carbon configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge graphite-carbon
Remove graphite-carbon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove graphite-carbon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge graphite-carbon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install graphite-carbon package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
