How To Install collectd-hugepages on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-hugepages on Rocky Linux 8. collectd-hugepages is Hugepages plugin for collectd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-hugepages on Rocky Linux 8.

What is collectd-hugepages

This plugin collects statistics about hugepage usage.

We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-hugepages on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-hugepages.

Install collectd-hugepages on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install collectd-hugepages

Install collectd-hugepages on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install collectd-hugepages using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install collectd-hugepages

How To Uninstall collectd-hugepages on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the collectd-hugepages package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove collectd-hugepages

collectd-hugepages Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/547257fa673cd4727cc8fb653da71cf93048b6
/usr/lib64/collectd/hugepages.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-hugepages on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.