How to Install and Uninstall prometheus-node-exporter Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "prometheus-node-exporter" package

Please follow the steps below to install prometheus-node-exporter on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install prometheus-node-exporter

2. Uninstall "prometheus-node-exporter" package

Learn how to uninstall prometheus-node-exporter on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):

$ sudo apt remove prometheus-node-exporter $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the prometheus-node-exporter package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: prometheus-node-exporter
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 7705
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.11.0+ds-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), daemon
Filename: pool/universe/p/prometheus-node-exporter/prometheus-node-exporter_0.11.0+ds-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1739224
MD5sum: 67729463617012cf2cb0523d87aa6c68
SHA1: 5cd26a151c2792b5f124b8bcaee06e3cee37af94
SHA256: 45545fa5643a1b940062d1a6b9dbac02299fb7b8afa1c152952d2fb608857625
Description-en: Prometheus exporter for machine metrics
Prometheus exporter for machine metrics, written in Go with pluggable metric
collectors.
Description-md5: 9366958e5739169b3c3e951f14e3802f
Built-Using: golang (= 2:1.5.1-0ubuntu2), golang-github-prometheus-log (= 0+git20150701.439e5db-1), golang-goprotobuf (= 0.0~git20150526-2), golang-procfs (= 0+git20150616.c91d8ee-1), golang-prometheus-client (= 0.6.0+ds-1)
Homepage: https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu