How To Install icli on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icli
on Debian 9.
What is icli
icli is:
icli is a command line interface to Icinga. It can show the service, host, queue or downtime status of all or specified hosts or hostgroups. It can also be used to schedule service rechecks.
By overriding the status file path names, it can also be used with a nagios installation.
There are three methods to install icli
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 icli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install icli
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install icli
Install icli Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install icli
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install icli
Install icli 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 icli
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install icli
How To Uninstall icli on Debian 9
To uninstall only the icli
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove icli
Uninstall icli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall icli
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icli
Remove icli Configurations and Data
To remove icli
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge icli
Remove icli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove icli
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icli
Dependencies
icli have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icli
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.