Installing influxdb-client on Ubuntu 17.04 LTS
Example of installing influxdb-client on Ubuntu 17.04 LTS using the command sudo apt-get install influxdb-client.
Quick installation of influxdb-client:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: influxdb-client
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install influxdb-client
Package Details | |
| Package: | influxdb-client |
| Version: | 0.10.0+dfsg1-1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | https://influxdata.com/time-series-platform/influxdb/ |
| Description: | command line interface for InfluxDB InfluxDB is a time series, metrics, and analytics database. It’s written in Go and has no external dependencies. That means once you install it there’s nothing else to manage (such as Redis, ZooKeeper, Cassandra, HBase, or anything else). InfluxDB is targeted at use cases for DevOps, metrics, sensor data, and real-time analytics. . This package contains the command line interface. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 17.04 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/database |
How to install influxdb-client on Ubuntu 17.04?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 17.04 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If influxdb-client is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L influxdb-client' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L influxdb-client dpkg-query: package 'influxdb-client' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing influxdb-client:
After system update use the following command to install influxdb-client:
sudo apt-get install influxdb-client
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 17.04 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove influxdb-client from Ubuntu 17.04?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the influxdb-client from Ubuntu 17.04. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the influxdb-client following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove influxdb-client
Following command is used to remove the influxdb-client package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove influxdb-client
This will remove influxdb-client and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing influxdb-client with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge influxdb-client
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove influxdb-client
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with influxdb-client package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.