How To Install collectd-synproxy on Rocky Linux 8

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

Introduction

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

What is collectd-synproxy

This plugin provides statistics for Linux SYNPROXY available since 3.12

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

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

sudo dnf -y install collectd-synproxy

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

sudo yum -y install collectd-synproxy

How To Uninstall collectd-synproxy on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove collectd-synproxy

collectd-synproxy Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/3d7df8169c163ab9d00ff6d244e883bad27d41
/usr/lib64/collectd/synproxy.so

References

Summary

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