collectd-core software package provides statistics collection and monitoring daemon (core system), 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-core
collectd-core is installed in your system.
Make ensure the collectd-core package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep collectd-core *
You will get with collectd-core package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | collectd-core |
| Version | 4.10.1-2.1ubuntu7 |
| Description | statistics collection and monitoring daemon (core system) |
| Sub Section | Utils |