How To Install logcentral-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install logcentral-tools on Debian 9.
What is logcentral-tools
logcentral-tools is:
Monitoring distributed applications that are spread over a network is not an easy task. Information from several sources must be gathered, filtered and distributed to visualisation tools.
LogService is a system that simplifies this task. It acts as a common base between an application and it’s visualisation tools. It also provides a mechanism to classify and filter messages in a general way and other functions are needed to monitor distributed applications.
The service is named LogCentral.
There are three methods to install logcentral-tools on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install logcentral-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install logcentral-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install logcentral-tools
Install logcentral-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install logcentral-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install logcentral-tools
Install logcentral-tools 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 logcentral-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install logcentral-tools
How To Uninstall logcentral-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the logcentral-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove logcentral-tools
Uninstall logcentral-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall logcentral-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove logcentral-tools
Remove logcentral-tools Configurations and Data
To remove logcentral-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge logcentral-tools
Remove logcentral-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove logcentral-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge logcentral-tools
Dependencies
logcentral-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install logcentral-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.