How To Install mrtg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrtg on Debian 9.
What is mrtg
mrtg is:
The Multi Router Traffic Grapher is a tool primarily used to monitor the traffic load on network links (typically by using SNMP). MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic. MRTG typically produces daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs.
In addition to monitoring via SNMP, MRTG can also generate graphs based on the output of any application, allowing one to generate graphs of anything that needs monitoring (for example, CPU and memory usage, email volumes, web hits, etc). For faster data collection, MRTG can also interface to RRDtool.
The mrtg-contrib package contains the contributed scripts and configuration files that used to form part of the mrtg package.
There are three methods to install mrtg 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 mrtg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mrtg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mrtg
Install mrtg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mrtg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mrtg
Install mrtg 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 mrtg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mrtg
How To Uninstall mrtg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mrtg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mrtg
Uninstall mrtg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mrtg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mrtg
Remove mrtg Configurations and Data
To remove mrtg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mrtg
Remove mrtg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mrtg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mrtg
Dependencies
mrtg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrtg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.