How To Install libmonitoring-plugin-perl on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmonitoring-plugin-perl
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libmonitoring-plugin-perl
libmonitoring-plugin-perl is:
Monitoring::Plugin and its associated Monitoring::Plugin::* modules are a family of perl modules to streamline writing Monitoring plugins. The main end user modules are Monitoring::Plugin, providing an object-oriented interface to the entire Monitoring::Plugin::* collection, and Monitoring::Plugin::Functions, providing a simpler functional interface to a useful subset of the available functionality.
The purpose of the collection is to make it as simple as possible for developers to create plugins that conform the Monitoring Plugin guidelines (https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html).
There are three methods to install libmonitoring-plugin-perl
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmonitoring-plugin-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmonitoring-plugin-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmonitoring-plugin-perl
Install libmonitoring-plugin-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmonitoring-plugin-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmonitoring-plugin-perl
Install libmonitoring-plugin-perl 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 libmonitoring-plugin-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmonitoring-plugin-perl
How To Uninstall libmonitoring-plugin-perl on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libmonitoring-plugin-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmonitoring-plugin-perl
Uninstall libmonitoring-plugin-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmonitoring-plugin-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmonitoring-plugin-perl
Remove libmonitoring-plugin-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libmonitoring-plugin-perl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmonitoring-plugin-perl
Remove libmonitoring-plugin-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmonitoring-plugin-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmonitoring-plugin-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmonitoring-plugin-perl
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.