How To Install aodh-listener on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aodh-listener on Kali Linux.

What is aodh-listener

aodh-listener is:

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 the listener daemon: it does an alarm on an event.

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

Install aodh-listener Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install aodh-listener

Install aodh-listener Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install aodh-listener

Install aodh-listener Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install aodh-listener using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install aodh-listener

How To Uninstall aodh-listener on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the aodh-listener package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove aodh-listener

Uninstall aodh-listener And Its Dependencies

To uninstall aodh-listener and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aodh-listener

Remove aodh-listener Configurations and Data

To remove aodh-listener configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge aodh-listener

Remove aodh-listener configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aodh-listener

Dependencies

aodh-listener have the following dependencies:

• aodh-common
• lsb-base

References

• aodh-listener website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aodh-listener package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.