How To Install lightsquid on Fedora 34

lightsquid is Light, small, and fast log analyzer for squid proxy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lightsquid on Fedora 34.

What is lightsquid

lightsquid is a small and fast Squid log analyzer.

We can use yum or dnf to install lightsquid on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lightsquid.

Install lightsquid on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install lightsquid using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lightsquid

Install lightsquid on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install lightsquid using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lightsquid

How To Uninstall lightsquid on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove lightsquid

lightsquid Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/cron.daily/lightsquid
/etc/lightsquid
/etc/lightsquid/group.cfg
/etc/lightsquid/lightsquid.cfg
/etc/lightsquid/realname.cfg
/usr/sbin/lightparser.pl
/usr/share/doc/lightsquid
/usr/share/doc/lightsquid/gnugpl.txt
/usr/share/doc/lightsquid/graph.txt
/usr/share/doc/lightsquid/install.txt
/usr/share/doc/lightsquid/logformat.txt
/usr/share/doc/lightsquid/readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/lightsquid/templates.txt
/usr/share/doc/lightsquid/thanks.txt
/usr/share/doc/lightsquid/version.txt
/usr/share/lightsquid/check-setup.pl
/usr/share/lightsquid/common.pl
/usr/share/lightsquid/ip2name/ip2name.abils
/usr/share/lightsquid/ip2name/ip2name.demo
/usr/share/lightsquid/ip2name/ip2name.dhcp
/usr/share/lightsquid/ip2name/ip2name.dns
/usr/share/lightsquid/ip2name/ip2name.ip
/usr/share/lightsquid/ip2name/ip2name.list
/usr/share/lightsquid/ip2name/ip2name.simple
/usr/share/lightsquid/ip2name/ip2name.smb
/usr/share/lightsquid/ip2name/ip2name.squidauth
/usr/share/lightsquid/ip2name/ip2name.squidlist
/usr/share/lightsquid/ip2name/ip2name.squidlist2
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/bg.lng
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/check_lng.pl
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/check_tpl_lng.pl
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/cz.lng
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/eng.lng
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/fr.lng
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/hu.lng
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/it.lng
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/pt_br.lng
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/ru-koi8.lng
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/ru-utf8.lng
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/ru.lng
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/sp.lng
/usr/share/lightsquid/lang/ua.lng
/usr/share/lightsquid/tools/SiteAggregator
/usr/share/lightsquid/tools/SiteAggregator/ReportExplorer.pl
/usr/share/lightsquid/tools/SiteAggregator/SiteAgregator.pl
/usr/share/lightsquid/tools/fixreport.pl
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/bigfiles.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/day_detail.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/graph.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/group_detail.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/images
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/images/datetime.png
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/images/flag_red.png
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/images/graph.png
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/images/printer.png
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/index.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/month_detail.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/topsites.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/user_detail.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/user_month.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/user_time.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/base/whousesite.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/text
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/text/bigfiles.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/text/day_detail.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/text/group_detail.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/text/index.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/text/month_detail.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/text/topsites.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/text/user_detail.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/text/user_month.html
/usr/share/lightsquid/tpl/text/whousesite.html
/var/lightsquid

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lightsquid on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.