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