How to Install collectd software package in Debian 8 (Jessie)

How to Install collectd software package in Debian 8 (Jessie)

collectd software package provides statistics collection and monitoring daemon, you can install in your Debian 8 (Jessie) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install collectd 

collectd is installed in your system.

Make ensure the collectd package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep collectd *

You will get with collectd package name, version, architecture and description in a table

collectd package basic information:

Distro Debian 8 jessie
Section Utilities
Package collectd
Version 5.4.1-6+deb8u1
Description statistics collection and monitoring daemon
Sub Section utils


See Also, How to uninstall or remove collectd software package from Debian 8 (Jessie)?