How To Install collectd-netlink on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-netlink
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is collectd-netlink
This plugin uses a netlink socket to query the Linux kernel about statistics of various interface and routing aspects.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install collectd-netlink
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-netlink.
Install collectd-netlink 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-netlink
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-netlink
Install collectd-netlink 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-netlink
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-netlink
How To Uninstall collectd-netlink on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the collectd-netlink
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-netlink
collectd-netlink Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/08ead500becced70368aa505684ec6cf5a4c6a
/usr/lib64/collectd/netlink.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-netlink
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.