How To Install graphite-carbon on Debian 12

Learn how to install graphite-carbon on Debian 12 with this tutorial. graphite-carbon is backend data caching and persistence daemon for Graphite

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install graphite-carbon on Debian 12.

What is graphite-carbon

graphite-carbon is:

Graphite is a web application using the Twisted framework to provide real-time visualization and storage of numeric time-series data.

The Carbon daemon processes the incoming time-series data and saves it as Whisper database files.

There are three methods to install graphite-carbon 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 graphite-carbon Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install graphite-carbon

Install graphite-carbon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install graphite-carbon

Install graphite-carbon 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 graphite-carbon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install graphite-carbon

How To Uninstall graphite-carbon on Debian 12

To uninstall only the graphite-carbon package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove graphite-carbon

Uninstall graphite-carbon And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove graphite-carbon

Remove graphite-carbon Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge graphite-carbon

Remove graphite-carbon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge graphite-carbon

Dependencies

graphite-carbon have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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