How To Install ceilometer-agent-notification on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-agent-notification on Kali Linux.

What is ceilometer-agent-notification

ceilometer-agent-notification is:

Ceilometer aims to deliver a Single Point Of Contact for billing systems, providing all the counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack components. The delivery of counters must be traceable and auditable, the counters must be easily extensible to support new projects, and agents doing data collections should be independent of the overall system.

(A ceilometer is an instrument that measures cloud coverage.)

This package contains the notification agent daemon.

There are three methods to install ceilometer-agent-notification 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 ceilometer-agent-notification Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ceilometer-agent-notification

Install ceilometer-agent-notification Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-agent-notification using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ceilometer-agent-notification

Install ceilometer-agent-notification 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 ceilometer-agent-notification using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-agent-notification

How To Uninstall ceilometer-agent-notification on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ceilometer-agent-notification package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-agent-notification

Uninstall ceilometer-agent-notification And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-agent-notification

Remove ceilometer-agent-notification Configurations and Data

To remove ceilometer-agent-notification configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-agent-notification

Remove ceilometer-agent-notification configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ceilometer-agent-notification configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ceilometer-agent-notification

Dependencies

ceilometer-agent-notification have the following dependencies:

• ceilometer-common

References

• ceilometer-agent-notification website

Summary

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