How To Install collectd-python on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-python
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is collectd-python
The Python plugin embeds a Python interpreter into Collectd and exposes the application programming interface (API) to Python-scripts.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install collectd-python
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-python.
Install collectd-python 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-python
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-python
Install collectd-python 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-python
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-python
How To Uninstall collectd-python on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the collectd-python
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-python
collectd-python Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/fd1a01b57feb108daeadb1fd95f8ab1f3abca6
/usr/lib64/collectd/python.so
/usr/share/man/man5/collectd-python.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-python
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.