How To Install ganglia-webfrontend on Debian 10

Learn how to install ganglia-webfrontend on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ganglia-webfrontend is cluster monitoring toolkit - web front-end

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-webfrontend on Debian 10.

What is ganglia-webfrontend

ganglia-webfrontend is:

Ganglia is a scalable, real-time cluster monitoring environment that collects cluster statistics in an open and well-defined XML format.

This package contains the PHP-based web front-end, which displays information gathered by ‘gmetad’.

There are three methods to install ganglia-webfrontend on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ganglia-webfrontend Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ganglia-webfrontend using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ganglia-webfrontend

Install ganglia-webfrontend Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ganglia-webfrontend

Install ganglia-webfrontend 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 ganglia-webfrontend using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ganglia-webfrontend

How To Uninstall ganglia-webfrontend on Debian 10

To uninstall only the ganglia-webfrontend package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ganglia-webfrontend

Uninstall ganglia-webfrontend And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ganglia-webfrontend and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ganglia-webfrontend

Remove ganglia-webfrontend Configurations and Data

To remove ganglia-webfrontend configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ganglia-webfrontend

Remove ganglia-webfrontend configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ganglia-webfrontend

Dependencies

ganglia-webfrontend have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia-webfrontend package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.