How To Install ceilometer-send-sample on Debian 11

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install ceilometer-common

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is ceilometer-send-sample and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Debian 11. This guide was written specifically with a server running Debian 11 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install ceilometer-send-sample on Debian 11. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install ceilometer-send-sample using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install ceilometer-send-sample using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ceilometer-common

Install ceilometer-send-sample using apt

Because ceilometer-send-sample is available in Debian 11’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install ceilometer-send-sample using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ceilometer-common

Install ceilometer-send-sample 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 Debian 11. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install ceilometer-send-sample by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-common

How to upgrade (update) a single package ceilometer-send-sample using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the ceilometer-send-sample, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install ceilometer-common

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install ceilometer-common

How To Uninstall ceilometer-send-sample from Debian 11

To uninstall only the ceilometer-send-sample package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-common

Uninstall ceilometer-send-sample and all its dependencies

To uninstall ceilometer-send-sample and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-common

Remove ceilometer-send-sample with all configurations and data

To remove ceilometer-send-sample configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-common

Remove ceilometer-send-sample completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to ceilometer-send-sample package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

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

Extra info and code examples

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 files that are needed for all parts of Ceilometer.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install ceilometer-send-sample using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the ceilometer-send-sample from Debian 11.

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