How To Install pmacct on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pmacct on Ubuntu.

What is `pmacct`

pmacct is:

pmacct is a tool designed to gather traffic information (bytes and number of packets) by listening on a promiscuous interface or for Netflow data, which may facilitate billing, bandwidth management, traffic analysis, or creating usage graphs.

Data can be stored in memory and queried, displayed directly, or written to a database; storage methods are quite flexible and may aggregate totals or keep them separate.

There are three methods to install pmacct on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install pmacct Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pmacct using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pmacct

Install pmacct Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pmacct using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pmacct

Install pmacct Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install pmacct using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pmacct

How To Uninstall pmacct on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the pmacct package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pmacct

Uninstall pmacct And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pmacct and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pmacct

Remove pmacct Configurations and Data

To remove pmacct configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pmacct

Remove pmacct configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pmacct configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pmacct

Dependencies

pmacct have the following dependencies:

References

pmacct website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pmacct package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.