How To Install mrtg on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install mrtg on Ubuntu 22.04. mrtg is Multi Router Traffic Grapher

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mrtg on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is mrtg

mrtg is:

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher is a tool primarily used to monitor the traffic load on network links (typically by using SNMP). MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic. MRTG typically produces daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs.

In addition to monitoring via SNMP, MRTG can also generate graphs based on the output of any application, allowing one to generate graphs of anything that needs monitoring (for example, CPU and memory usage, email volumes, web hits, etc). For faster data collection, MRTG can also interface to RRDtool.

The mrtg-contrib package contains the contributed scripts and configuration files that used to form part of the mrtg package.

There are three methods to install mrtg on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mrtg Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mrtg

Install mrtg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mrtg

Install mrtg 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 mrtg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mrtg

How To Uninstall mrtg on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove mrtg

Uninstall mrtg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mrtg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mrtg

Remove mrtg Configurations and Data

To remove mrtg configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mrtg

Remove mrtg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mrtg

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mrtg package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.