How To Install diamond on Debian 10

Learn how to install diamond on Debian 10 with this tutorial. diamond is smart data producer for Graphite graphing package

Introduction

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

What is diamond

diamond is:

Diamond is a python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes them to Graphite (and others). It is capable of collecting cpu, memory, network, i/o, load and disk metrics. Additionally, it features an API for implementing custom collectors for gathering metrics from almost any source.

This package contains the daemon and its configuration and accessories.

There are three methods to install diamond 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 diamond Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install diamond

Install diamond Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install diamond

Install diamond 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 diamond using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install diamond

How To Uninstall diamond on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove diamond

Uninstall diamond And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove diamond

Remove diamond Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge diamond

Remove diamond configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge diamond

Dependencies

diamond have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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