How To Install munin on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install munin on Debian 10.
What is munin
munin is:
Munin is a highly flexible and powerful solution used to create graphs of virtually everything imaginable throughout your network, while still maintaining a rattling ease of installation and configuration.
This package contains the grapher/gatherer. You will only need one instance of it in your network. It will periodically poll all the nodes in your network it’s aware of for data, which it in turn will use to create graphs and HTML pages, suitable for viewing with your graphical web browser of choice.
It is also able to alert you if any value is outside of a preset boundary, useful if you want to be alerted if a filesystem is about to grow full, for instance. You can do this by making Munin run an arbitrary command when you need to be alert it, or make use of the intrinsic Nagios support.
Munin is written in Perl, and relies heavily on Tobi Oetiker’s excellent RRDtool. To see a real example of Munin in action, you can follow a link from http://munin-monitoring.org/ to a live installation.
There are three methods to install munin 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 munin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install munin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install munin
Install munin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install munin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install munin
Install munin 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 munin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install munin
How To Uninstall munin on Debian 10
To uninstall only the munin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove munin
Uninstall munin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall munin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove munin
Remove munin Configurations and Data
To remove munin configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge munin
Remove munin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove munin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge munin
Dependencies
munin have the following dependencies:
- perl
- lsb-base
- cron
- fonts-dejavu-core
- libdate-manip-perl
- libdigest-md5-perl
- libfile-copy-recursive-perl
- libhtml-template-perl
- libio-socket-inet6-perl
- liblog-log4perl-perl
- librrds-perl
- libstorable-perl
- libtime-hires-perl
- liburi-perl
- munin-common
- netbase
- rrdtool
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install munin package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
