How To Install ceilometer-agent-central on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-agent-central on Kali Linux.

What is ceilometer-agent-central

ceilometer-agent-central is:

Ceilometer aims to deliver a Single Point Of Contact for billing systems, providing all the counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack components. The delivery of counters must be traceable and auditable, the counters must be easily extensible to support new projects, and agents doing data collections should be independent of the overall system.

(A ceilometer is an instrument that measures cloud coverage.)

This package contains the central agent.

There are three methods to install ceilometer-agent-central on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ceilometer-agent-central Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ceilometer-agent-central

Install ceilometer-agent-central Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-agent-central using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ceilometer-agent-central

Install ceilometer-agent-central Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-agent-central using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-agent-central

How To Uninstall ceilometer-agent-central on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ceilometer-agent-central package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-agent-central

Uninstall ceilometer-agent-central And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ceilometer-agent-central and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-agent-central

Remove ceilometer-agent-central Configurations and Data

To remove ceilometer-agent-central configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-agent-central

Remove ceilometer-agent-central configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ceilometer-agent-central configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ceilometer-agent-central

Dependencies

ceilometer-agent-central have the following dependencies:

• ceilometer-common

References

• ceilometer-agent-central website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-agent-central package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.