How To Install ceilometer-api on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-api on Debian 9.
What is ceilometer-api
ceilometer-api 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 API service.
There are three methods to install ceilometer-api on Debian 9. 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-api 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-api using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ceilometer-api
Install ceilometer-api Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-api using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ceilometer-api
Install ceilometer-api 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 ceilometer-api using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-api
How To Uninstall ceilometer-api on Debian 9
To uninstall only the ceilometer-api package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-api
Uninstall ceilometer-api And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ceilometer-api and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-api
Remove ceilometer-api Configurations and Data
To remove ceilometer-api configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-api
Remove ceilometer-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ceilometer-api configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ceilometer-api
Dependencies
ceilometer-api have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-api package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.