How To Install python-ceilometer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ceilometer
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-ceilometer
python-ceilometer is:
Ceilometer aims to deliver a unique point of contact for billing systems to acquire all counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack components. The delivery of counters must be traceable and auditable, the counters must be easily extensible to support new projects, and agents doing data collections should be independent of the overall system.
(A ceilometer is an instrument that measures cloud coverage.)
This package contains the python libraries that are needed for all parts of ceilometer
There are three methods to install python-ceilometer
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 python-ceilometer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-ceilometer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-ceilometer
Install python-ceilometer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-ceilometer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-ceilometer
Install python-ceilometer 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 python-ceilometer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-ceilometer
How To Uninstall python-ceilometer on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-ceilometer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-ceilometer
Uninstall python-ceilometer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-ceilometer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-ceilometer
Remove python-ceilometer Configurations and Data
To remove python-ceilometer
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-ceilometer
Remove python-ceilometer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-ceilometer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-ceilometer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ceilometer
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.