How To Install ceilometer-common on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-common on Ubuntu 20.04. ceilometer-common is ceilometer common files ceilometer common files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-common on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is ceilometer-common

ceilometer-common 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 files that are needed for all parts of ceilometer

Package: ceilometer-common Architecture: all Version: 1:14.0.0~b3~git2020041012.75b9d4e9-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: python Source: ceilometer Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Chuck Short [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 86 Depends: adduser Breaks: ceilometer-agent-central (« 1:11.0.0-0ubuntu2~), ceilometer-agent-compute (« 1:11.0.0-0ubuntu2~), ceilometer-agent-ipmi (« 1:11.0.0-0ubuntu2~), ceilometer-agent-notification (« 1:11.0.0-0ubuntu2~), ceilometer-polling (« 1:11.0.0-0ubuntu2~) Replaces: ceilometer-agent-central (« 1:11.0.0-0ubuntu2~), ceilometer-agent-compute (« 1:11.0.0-0ubuntu2~), ceilometer-agent-ipmi (« 1:11.0.0-0ubuntu2~), ceilometer-agent-notification (« 1:11.0.0-0ubuntu2~), ceilometer-polling (« 1:11.0.0-0ubuntu2~) Filename: pool/main/c/ceilometer/ceilometer-common_14.0.0~b3~git2020041012.75b9d4e9-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 16084 MD5sum: ef1adc55f7be26658cf32e499e63ccbf SHA1: 0eaa45d33a9d312f78ca7ac8ad61a2e968a91db9 SHA256: e3e9b7b49c8cf755f62846a105f610296cc58292fd661b4ed15774f657688118 Description-en: ceilometer common files 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 files that are needed for all parts of ceilometer

There are three methods to install ceilometer-common on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04

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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.