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