How To Install health-check on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install health-check on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is health-check
health-check is:
Health-check monitors processes and optionally their child processes and threads for a given amount of time. At the end of the monitoring it will display the CPU time used, wakeup events generated and I/O operations of the given processes. It can be used to diagnose unhealthy bad processes.
There are three methods to install health-check on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install health-check Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install health-check using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install health-check
Install health-check Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install health-check using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install health-check
Install health-check 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 health-check using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install health-check
How To Uninstall health-check on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the health-check package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove health-check
Uninstall health-check And Its Dependencies
To uninstall health-check and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove health-check
Remove health-check Configurations and Data
To remove health-check configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge health-check
Remove health-check configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove health-check configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge health-check
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install health-check package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
