How To Install python3-ceilometerclient on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ceilometerclient on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python3-ceilometerclient
python3-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 3.x module.
There are three methods to install python3-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 python3-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 python3-ceilometerclient using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-ceilometerclient
Install python3-ceilometerclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-ceilometerclient using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-ceilometerclient
Install python3-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 python3-ceilometerclient using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-ceilometerclient
How To Uninstall python3-ceilometerclient on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python3-ceilometerclient package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-ceilometerclient
Uninstall python3-ceilometerclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-ceilometerclient and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-ceilometerclient
Remove python3-ceilometerclient Configurations and Data
To remove python3-ceilometerclient configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-ceilometerclient
Remove python3-ceilometerclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-ceilometerclient configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-ceilometerclient
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-ceilometerclient package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
