How To Install python-ceilometerclient on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ceilometerclient on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-ceilometerclient
python-ceilometerclient 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 tracable and auditable, the counters must be easily extensible to support new projects, and agents doing data collections should be independent of the overall system.
This is a client for the Ceilometer which uses the OpenStack Image API. There’s a Python API (the “ceilometerclient” module), and a command-line script (“ceilometer”).
This package contains the Python 2.7 module.
There are three methods to install python-ceilometerclient 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-ceilometerclient 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-ceilometerclient using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-ceilometerclient
Install python-ceilometerclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-ceilometerclient using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-ceilometerclient
Install python-ceilometerclient 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-ceilometerclient using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-ceilometerclient
How To Uninstall python-ceilometerclient on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-ceilometerclient package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-ceilometerclient
Uninstall python-ceilometerclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-ceilometerclient and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-ceilometerclient
Remove python-ceilometerclient Configurations and Data
To remove python-ceilometerclient configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-ceilometerclient
Remove python-ceilometerclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-ceilometerclient configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-ceilometerclient
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ceilometerclient package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
