How To Install ceilometer-doc on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-doc on Debian 9.

What is ceilometer-doc

ceilometer-doc 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 documentation.

There are three methods to install ceilometer-doc 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-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ceilometer-doc

Install ceilometer-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ceilometer-doc

Install ceilometer-doc 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-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-doc

How To Uninstall ceilometer-doc on Debian 9

To uninstall only the ceilometer-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-doc

Uninstall ceilometer-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ceilometer-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-doc

Remove ceilometer-doc Configurations and Data

To remove ceilometer-doc configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-doc

Remove ceilometer-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ceilometer-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ceilometer-doc

Dependencies

ceilometer-doc have the following dependencies:

• libjs-sphinxdoc

References

• ceilometer-doc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-doc package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.