How to Install collectd software package in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

How to Install collectd software package in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

collectd software package provides statistics collection and monitoring daemon, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) 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 Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin
Section Utilities
Package collectd
Version 4.10.1-2.1ubuntu7
Description statistics collection and monitoring daemon
Sub Section Utils


See Also, How to uninstall or remove collectd software package from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)?