How To Install cricket on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cricket on Ubuntu 22.04. cricket is Program for collection and display of time-series data

Introduction

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

What is cricket

cricket is:

This is Cricket. It is a configuration, polling, and data-display engine wrapped around the RRD tool by Tobias Oetiker. There are three user-visible pieces to Cricket: the collector, the grapher, and the config tree. The collector runs from cron and fetches data from a number of devices according to the info it finds in the config tree. The grapher is a CGI application that allows users to traverse the config tree from a web browser and see the data that the collector recorded.

There are three methods to install cricket 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 cricket Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cricket

Install cricket Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cricket

Install cricket 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 cricket using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cricket

How To Uninstall cricket on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove cricket

Uninstall cricket And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cricket

Remove cricket Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cricket

Remove cricket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cricket

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Summary

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