How To Install munin-plugins-extra on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install munin-plugins-extra on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is munin-plugins-extra
munin-plugins-extra is:
Munin is a highly flexible and powerful solution used to create graphs of virtually everything imaginable throughout your network, while still maintaining a rattling ease of installation and configuration.
This package contains unsupported plugins for the Munin node, contributed by various users of Munin.
Munin is written in Perl, and relies heavily on Tobi Oetiker’s excellent RRDtool. To see a real example of Munin in action, you can follow a link from http://munin-monitoring.org/ to a live installation.
There are three methods to install munin-plugins-extra on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install munin-plugins-extra Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install munin-plugins-extra using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install munin-plugins-extra
Install munin-plugins-extra Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install munin-plugins-extra using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install munin-plugins-extra
Install munin-plugins-extra 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 munin-plugins-extra using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install munin-plugins-extra
How To Uninstall munin-plugins-extra on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the munin-plugins-extra package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove munin-plugins-extra
Uninstall munin-plugins-extra And Its Dependencies
To uninstall munin-plugins-extra and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove munin-plugins-extra
Remove munin-plugins-extra Configurations and Data
To remove munin-plugins-extra configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge munin-plugins-extra
Remove munin-plugins-extra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove munin-plugins-extra configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge munin-plugins-extra
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install munin-plugins-extra package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
