How To Install gnocchi-metricd on Debian 12

Learn how to install gnocchi-metricd on Debian 12 with this tutorial. gnocchi-metricd is Metric as a Service - metric daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnocchi-metricd on Debian 12.

What is gnocchi-metricd

gnocchi-metricd is:

Gnocchi is a service for managing a set of resources and storing metrics about them, in a scalable and resilient way. Its functionalities are exposed over an HTTP REST API.

This package contains the metric daemon.

There are three methods to install gnocchi-metricd 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 gnocchi-metricd Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnocchi-metricd

Install gnocchi-metricd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gnocchi-metricd

Install gnocchi-metricd 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 gnocchi-metricd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnocchi-metricd

How To Uninstall gnocchi-metricd on Debian 12

To uninstall only the gnocchi-metricd package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnocchi-metricd

Uninstall gnocchi-metricd And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gnocchi-metricd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnocchi-metricd

Remove gnocchi-metricd Configurations and Data

To remove gnocchi-metricd configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gnocchi-metricd

Remove gnocchi-metricd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnocchi-metricd

Dependencies

gnocchi-metricd have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnocchi-metricd package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.