How To Install collectd-lua on Rocky Linux 8

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

Introduction

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

What is collectd-lua

The Lua plugin embeds a Lua interpreter into collectd and exposes the application programming interface (API) to Lua scripts.

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

Install collectd-lua 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-lua using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install collectd-lua

Install collectd-lua 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-lua using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install collectd-lua

How To Uninstall collectd-lua on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove collectd-lua

collectd-lua Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/97db2c5afc1cab3ab9ecc986c983eda7f5697f
/usr/lib64/collectd/lua.so
/usr/share/man/man5/collectd-lua.5.gz

References

Summary

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