How To Install statgrab on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install statgrab on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is statgrab
statgrab is:
statgrab provides an access to system statistics using a sysctl-style interface. This is useful for applications that don’t want to make library calls, but still want to access the statistics. An example is mrtg, for which scripts are provided to generate configuration files.
statgrab utilizes libstatgrab library.
There are three methods to install statgrab 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 statgrab Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install statgrab using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install statgrab
Install statgrab Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install statgrab using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install statgrab
Install statgrab 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 statgrab using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install statgrab
How To Uninstall statgrab on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the statgrab package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove statgrab
Uninstall statgrab And Its Dependencies
To uninstall statgrab and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove statgrab
Remove statgrab Configurations and Data
To remove statgrab configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge statgrab
Remove statgrab configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove statgrab configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge statgrab
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install statgrab package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.