How To Install libprometheus-tiny-perl on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprometheus-tiny-perl on Debian 12.
What is libprometheus-tiny-perl
libprometheus-tiny-perl is:
Prometheus::Tiny is a minimal metrics client for the Prometheus time-series database, that can be used to instrument a service so that it can export monitoring metrics so that Prometheus compatible servers can collect them.
It does the following things differently to Net::Prometheus:
- No setup. No need to pre-declare metrics to get something useful.
- Labels are passed in a hash. Positional parameters get awkward.
- No inbuilt collectors, PSGI apps, etc. Just the metrics.
- No different metric types. You get what you ask for.
There are three methods to install libprometheus-tiny-perl 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 libprometheus-tiny-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 libprometheus-tiny-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libprometheus-tiny-perl
Install libprometheus-tiny-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libprometheus-tiny-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libprometheus-tiny-perl
Install libprometheus-tiny-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libprometheus-tiny-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libprometheus-tiny-perl
How To Uninstall libprometheus-tiny-perl on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libprometheus-tiny-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libprometheus-tiny-perl
Uninstall libprometheus-tiny-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libprometheus-tiny-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprometheus-tiny-perl
Remove libprometheus-tiny-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libprometheus-tiny-perl configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libprometheus-tiny-perl
Remove libprometheus-tiny-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libprometheus-tiny-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprometheus-tiny-perl
Dependencies
libprometheus-tiny-perl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprometheus-tiny-perl package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
