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Installing StatsD

Installing StatsD

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Installing StatsD

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- [Instructor] Now that we have a high level understanding of StatsD, we can install it and start using it. In this video, we'll walk through a StatsD installation on an Ubuntu 16.04 Virtual Machine. This installation most closely resembles how to install the statement for production. However, changes will need to be made depending on the details of your environment. First, we will install the dependencies required to run StatsD. Most notably, Node JS. So we'll start on the command line, and we will type sudo apt get dash Y update. Update our system. And then after that, we will type sudo, apt get, dash Y, install, and we'll install the dependencies that we require, so we need git. We need Node JS. We need dev scripts. We need deb helper. We need NPM. And we also need DH dash system D. So then we'll go ahead and hit Enter. Once all that has been installed, we'll clone the StatsD repository, and get ready to build a package. So I'll change directories into the temp directory, and then…

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