How To Install python3-osprofiler 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 python3-osprofiler on Ubuntu.

What is `python3-osprofiler`

python3-osprofiler is:

OpenStack consists of multiple projects. Each project, in turn, is composed of multiple services. To process some request, e.g. to boot a virtual machine, OpenStack uses multiple services from different projects. In the case somethin works too slowly, it’s extremely complicated to understand what exactly goes wrong and to locate the bottleneck.

To resolve this issue, a tiny but powerful library, osprofiler, has been interoduced, and can be used by all OpenStack projects and their Python clients. To be able to generate one trace per request, that goes through all involved services, and builds a tree of calls (see an example http://pavlovic.me/rally/profiler/).

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

There are three methods to install python3-osprofiler 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 python3-osprofiler Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-osprofiler using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-osprofiler

Install python3-osprofiler Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-osprofiler using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-osprofiler

Install python3-osprofiler 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 python3-osprofiler using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-osprofiler

How To Uninstall python3-osprofiler on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the python3-osprofiler package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-osprofiler

Uninstall python3-osprofiler And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-osprofiler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-osprofiler

Remove python3-osprofiler Configurations and Data

To remove python3-osprofiler configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-osprofiler

Remove python3-osprofiler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-osprofiler configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-osprofiler

Dependencies

python3-osprofiler have the following dependencies:

References

python3-osprofiler website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-osprofiler package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.