How To Install cricket on Debian 10

Learn how to install cricket on Debian 10 with this tutorial. cricket is Program for collection and display of time-series data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cricket on Debian 10.

What is cricket

cricket is:

This is Cricket. It is a configuration, polling, and data-display engine wrapped around the RRD tool by Tobias Oetiker. There are three user-visible pieces to Cricket: the collector, the grapher, and the config tree. The collector runs from cron and fetches data from a number of devices according to the info it finds in the config tree. The grapher is a CGI application that allows users to traverse the config tree from a web browser and see the data that the collector recorded.

There are three methods to install cricket on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cricket Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cricket

Install cricket Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cricket using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cricket

Install cricket 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 cricket using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cricket

How To Uninstall cricket on Debian 10

To uninstall only the cricket package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cricket

Uninstall cricket And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cricket and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cricket

Remove cricket Configurations and Data

To remove cricket configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cricket

Remove cricket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cricket configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cricket

Dependencies

cricket have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cricket package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.