How To Install vzstats on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vzstats on Kali Linux.

What is vzstats

vzstats is:

This is an OpenVZ component to gather OpenVZ usage and hardware statistics, in order to improve the project.

Statistics gathered and reported include the following: 1 Hardware info.

• CPU, disk, memory/swap 2 Software info.
• host distribution, versions of OpenVZ components, kernel version 3 Containers info.
• number of containers existing/running/using ploop/using vswap
• OS templates of containers For more details, check the scripts in /usr/libexec/vzstats/ directory.

All submissions are anonymous and are not including IP or MAC addresses, hostnames etc. Global data are available at http://stats.openvz.org

For more details, see:

• http://openvz.org/vzstats
• http://stats.openvz.org

There are three methods to install vzstats on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install vzstats Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install vzstats using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install vzstats

Install vzstats Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install vzstats using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install vzstats

Install vzstats Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install vzstats using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vzstats

How To Uninstall vzstats on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the vzstats package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove vzstats

Uninstall vzstats And Its Dependencies

To uninstall vzstats and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vzstats

Remove vzstats Configurations and Data

To remove vzstats configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge vzstats

Remove vzstats configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove vzstats configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vzstats

Dependencies

vzstats have the following dependencies:

References

• vzstats website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vzstats package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.