How To Install icli on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icli on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icli
Remove icli Configurations and Data
To remove icli configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icli package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
