How To Install nixstatsagent on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nixstatsagent on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is nixstatsagent
nixstatsagent is:
NixStats.com offers a web service of monitoring and displaying your server performance statistics.
This software is an OS-agnostic agent. It’s been optimized to have a very small CPU footprint and comes with an extendable set of useful plugins.
There are three methods to install nixstatsagent 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 nixstatsagent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nixstatsagent using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nixstatsagent
Install nixstatsagent Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nixstatsagent using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nixstatsagent
Install nixstatsagent 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 nixstatsagent using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nixstatsagent
How To Uninstall nixstatsagent on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the nixstatsagent package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nixstatsagent
Uninstall nixstatsagent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nixstatsagent and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nixstatsagent
Remove nixstatsagent Configurations and Data
To remove nixstatsagent configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nixstatsagent
Remove nixstatsagent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nixstatsagent configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nixstatsagent
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nixstatsagent package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
