How To Install icli on Debian 10

Learn how to install icli on Debian 10 with this tutorial. icli is command line interface for the icinga monitoring system

Introduction

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

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 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 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 10

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 10, 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 10 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 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.