How To Install prometheus-smokeping-prober on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install prometheus-smokeping-prober on Debian 11. prometheus-smokeping-prober is Prometheus style smokeping prober

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prometheus-smokeping-prober on Debian 11.

What is prometheus-smokeping-prober

prometheus-smokeping-prober is:

This prober sends a series of ICMP (or UDP) pings to a target and records the responses in Prometheus histogram metrics. The resulting metrics are useful for detecting changes in network latency (or round trip time), as well as packet loss over a network path.

There are three methods to install prometheus-smokeping-prober on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install prometheus-smokeping-prober Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install prometheus-smokeping-prober using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install prometheus-smokeping-prober

Install prometheus-smokeping-prober Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install prometheus-smokeping-prober using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install prometheus-smokeping-prober

Install prometheus-smokeping-prober 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 prometheus-smokeping-prober using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install prometheus-smokeping-prober

How To Uninstall prometheus-smokeping-prober on Debian 11

To uninstall only the prometheus-smokeping-prober package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove prometheus-smokeping-prober

Uninstall prometheus-smokeping-prober And Its Dependencies

To uninstall prometheus-smokeping-prober and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove prometheus-smokeping-prober

Remove prometheus-smokeping-prober Configurations and Data

To remove prometheus-smokeping-prober configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge prometheus-smokeping-prober

Remove prometheus-smokeping-prober configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove prometheus-smokeping-prober configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prometheus-smokeping-prober

Dependencies

prometheus-smokeping-prober have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install prometheus-smokeping-prober package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.