How To Install collectd-utils on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-utils on Rocky Linux 8. collectd-utils is Collectd utilities

Introduction

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

What is collectd-utils

Collectd utilities

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

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

sudo dnf -y install collectd-utils

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

sudo yum -y install collectd-utils

How To Uninstall collectd-utils on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove collectd-utils

collectd-utils Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/collectd-nagios
/usr/bin/collectd-tg
/usr/bin/collectdctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/2707d01b49369ff30ba02e86148f9dfc149088
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/92a1eb306ac75fb3825310f6f86e4747d2e03d
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/949e050375bde7b40dccd90e705182b08588cf
/usr/share/man/man1/collectd-nagios.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/collectd-tg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/collectdctl.1.gz

References

Summary

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