How To Install ceilometer-polling on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-polling on Ubuntu 18.04. ceilometer-polling is ceilometer polling service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-polling on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is ceilometer-polling

ceilometer-polling 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 the polling service.

There are three methods to install ceilometer-polling 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-polling 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-polling using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ceilometer-polling

Install ceilometer-polling Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ceilometer-polling

Install ceilometer-polling 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-polling using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-polling

How To Uninstall ceilometer-polling on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-polling

Uninstall ceilometer-polling And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ceilometer-polling and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-polling

Remove ceilometer-polling Configurations and Data

To remove ceilometer-polling configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-polling

Remove ceilometer-polling configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ceilometer-polling

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-polling package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.