How To Install pmacct on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pmacct
on Debian 11.
What is pmacct
pmacct is:
pmacct is a tool designed to gather traffic information (bytes and number of packets) by listening on a promiscuous interface or for Netflow data, which may facilitate billing, bandwidth management, traffic analysis, or creating usage graphs.
Data can be stored in memory and queried, displayed directly, or written to a database; storage methods are quite flexible and may aggregate totals or keep them separate.
There are three methods to install pmacct
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pmacct Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pmacct
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pmacct
Install pmacct Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pmacct
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pmacct
Install pmacct 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 pmacct
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pmacct
How To Uninstall pmacct on Debian 11
To uninstall only the pmacct
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pmacct
Uninstall pmacct And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pmacct
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pmacct
Remove pmacct Configurations and Data
To remove pmacct
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pmacct
Remove pmacct configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pmacct
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pmacct
Dependencies
pmacct have the following dependencies:
- dpkg
- libc6
- libjansson4
- libmariadb3
- libmaxminddb0
- libnetfilter-log1
- libpcap0.8
- libpq5
- librabbitmq4
- librdkafka1
- libsqlite3-0
- libstdc++6
- libzmq5
- net-tools
- psmisc
- lsb-base
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pmacct
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.