How to Install collectd software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install collectd software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

collectd software package provides statistics collection and monitoring daemon, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) 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 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Utilities
Package collectd
Version 5.4.0-3ubuntu2
Description statistics collection and monitoring daemon
Sub Section Utils


See Also, How to uninstall or remove collectd software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?