How To Install ceilometer-instance-poller on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-instance-poller on Debian 12.
What is ceilometer-instance-poller
ceilometer-instance-poller 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 a libvirt and guestfs inspection script to poll what type of operating system is running in OpenStack VMs.
There are three methods to install ceilometer-instance-poller on Debian 12. 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-instance-poller 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-instance-poller using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ceilometer-instance-poller
Install ceilometer-instance-poller Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-instance-poller using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ceilometer-instance-poller
Install ceilometer-instance-poller 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-instance-poller using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-instance-poller
How To Uninstall ceilometer-instance-poller on Debian 12
To uninstall only the ceilometer-instance-poller package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-instance-poller
Uninstall ceilometer-instance-poller And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ceilometer-instance-poller and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-instance-poller
Remove ceilometer-instance-poller Configurations and Data
To remove ceilometer-instance-poller configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-instance-poller
Remove ceilometer-instance-poller configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ceilometer-instance-poller configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ceilometer-instance-poller
Dependencies
ceilometer-instance-poller have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-instance-poller package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.