How To Install python-osprofiler on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-osprofiler on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-osprofiler
python-osprofiler is:
OpenStack consists of multiple projects. Each project, in turn, is composed of multiple services. To process some request, e.g. to boot a virtual machine, OpenStack uses multiple services from different projects. In the case somethin works too slowly, it’s extremely complicated to understand what exactly goes wrong and to locate the bottleneck.
To resolve this issue, a tiny but powerful library, osprofiler, has been interoduced, and can be used by all OpenStack projects and their Python clients. To be able to generate one trace per request, that goes through all involved services, and builds a tree of calls (see an example http://pavlovic.me/rally/profiler/).
This package contains the Python 2.x module.
There are three methods to install python-osprofiler 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-osprofiler 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-osprofiler using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-osprofiler
Install python-osprofiler Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-osprofiler using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-osprofiler
Install python-osprofiler 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-osprofiler using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-osprofiler
How To Uninstall python-osprofiler on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-osprofiler package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-osprofiler
Uninstall python-osprofiler And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-osprofiler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-osprofiler
Remove python-osprofiler Configurations and Data
To remove python-osprofiler configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-osprofiler
Remove python-osprofiler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-osprofiler configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-osprofiler
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-osprofiler package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.