How To Install ceilometer-agent-ipmi on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-agent-ipmi
on Kali Linux.
What is ceilometer-agent-ipmi
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 IPMI agent daemon.
There are three ways to install ceilometer-agent-ipmi
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-ipmi 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-ipmi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ceilometer-agent-ipmi
Install ceilometer-agent-ipmi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-agent-ipmi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ceilometer-agent-ipmi
Install ceilometer-agent-ipmi 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 Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-agent-ipmi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-agent-ipmi
How To Uninstall ceilometer-agent-ipmi on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ceilometer-agent-ipmi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-agent-ipmi
Uninstall ceilometer-agent-ipmi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ceilometer-agent-ipmi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-agent-ipmi
Remove ceilometer-agent-ipmi Configurations and Data
To remove ceilometer-agent-ipmi
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-agent-ipmi
Remove ceilometer-agent-ipmi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ceilometer-agent-ipmi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ceilometer-agent-ipmi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-agent-ipmi
using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.