How To Install ceilometer-agent-ipmi on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-agent-ipmi on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ceilometer-agent-ipmi
ceilometer-agent-ipmi is:
Ceilometer aims to deliver a unique point of contact for billing systems to acquire all 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.
There are three methods to install ceilometer-agent-ipmi on Ubuntu 22.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, 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 Ubuntu 22.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-agent-ipmi package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
