How To Install monitorix on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install monitorix on Debian 12.
What is monitorix
monitorix is:
Monitorix is a lightweight tool that allow you to gather and display system metrics.
It consists mainly of two programs: a collector, called monitorix, which is a Perl daemon that is started automatically like any other system service, and a CGI script called monitorix.cgi. Monitorix includes its own HTTP server built in, so you aren’t forced to install a third-party web server to use it.
There are three methods to install monitorix 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 monitorix Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install monitorix using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install monitorix
Install monitorix Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install monitorix using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install monitorix
Install monitorix 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 monitorix using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install monitorix
How To Uninstall monitorix on Debian 12
To uninstall only the monitorix package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove monitorix
Uninstall monitorix And Its Dependencies
To uninstall monitorix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove monitorix
Remove monitorix Configurations and Data
To remove monitorix configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge monitorix
Remove monitorix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove monitorix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge monitorix
Dependencies
monitorix have the following dependencies:
- init-system-helpers
- libconfig-general-perl
- libdbi-perl
- libhttp-server-simple-perl
- libio-socket-ssl-perl
- libmailtools-perl
- libmime-lite-perl
- librrds-perl
- libwww-perl
- libxml-libxml-perl
- libxml-simple-perl
- net-tools
- rrdtool
- perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install monitorix package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.