How To Install logcentral on Debian 10

Learn how to install logcentral on Debian 10 with this tutorial. logcentral is Logging service for distributed applications

Introduction

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

What is logcentral

logcentral is:

Monitoring distributed applications that are spread over a network is not an easy task. Information from several sources must be gathered, filtered and distributed to visualisation tools.

LogService is a system that simplifies this task. It acts as a common base between an application and it’s visualisation tools. It also provides a mechanism to classify and filter messages in a general way and other functions are needed to monitor distributed applications.

The service is named LogCentral.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install logcentral

Install logcentral Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install logcentral

Install logcentral 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 logcentral using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install logcentral

How To Uninstall logcentral on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove logcentral

Uninstall logcentral And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove logcentral

Remove logcentral Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge logcentral

Remove logcentral configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge logcentral

Dependencies

logcentral have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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