How To Install ceilometer-polling on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-polling on Kali Linux.
What is ceilometer-polling
ceilometer-polling 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 polling service.
There are three methods to install ceilometer-polling on Kali Linux. 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-polling Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-polling using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ceilometer-pollingInstall ceilometer-polling Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-polling using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ceilometer-pollingInstall ceilometer-polling Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-polling using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-pollingHow To Uninstall ceilometer-polling on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ceilometer-polling package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-pollingUninstall ceilometer-polling And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ceilometer-polling and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-pollingRemove ceilometer-polling Configurations and Data
To remove ceilometer-polling configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-pollingRemove ceilometer-polling configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ceilometer-polling configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ceilometer-pollingDependencies
ceilometer-polling have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-polling package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.