How To Install ceilometer-polling on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-polling on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ceilometer-polling
ceilometer-polling 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 the polling service.
Package: ceilometer-polling Architecture: all Version: 1:14.0.0~b3~git2020041012.75b9d4e9-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/python Source: ceilometer Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Chuck Short [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 36 Depends: python3-ceilometer (= 1:14.0.0~b3~git2020041012.75b9d4e9-0ubuntu1) Filename: pool/universe/c/ceilometer/ceilometer-polling_14.0.0~b3~git2020041012.75b9d4e9-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 4884 MD5sum: c8c2eeb3d4a13458227670f6ff1d9376 SHA1: e5dc7326df6f9f56e222b882847943e4144d6f87 SHA256: 88d7025fb441b71c6a34006c5ee66c7b09d21035eeffc513858eb78142f5772e Description-en: ceilometer polling service 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 the polling service.
There are three methods to install ceilometer-polling 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-polling 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-polling using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ceilometer-polling
Install ceilometer-polling Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-polling using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ceilometer-polling
Install ceilometer-polling 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-polling using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-polling
How To Uninstall ceilometer-polling on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ceilometer-polling package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-polling
Uninstall ceilometer-polling And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ceilometer-polling and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-polling
Remove ceilometer-polling Configurations and Data
To remove ceilometer-polling configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-polling
Remove 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-polling
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-polling package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
