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